Shloka 9
Karṇa-parva Adhyāya 58 — Arjuna’s Arrow-Storm and Relief of Bhīmasena
पार्षतस्य धनुश्कछित्त्वा शरांश्षाशीविषोपमान् । ताडयामास संक्रुद्ध: पार्षत॑ नवभि: शरै:
pārṣatasya dhanuś chittvā śarān āśīviṣopamān | tāḍayāmāsa saṅkruddhaḥ pārṣataṁ navabhiḥ śaraiḥ ||
पार्षतस्य धनुः छित्त्वा शरांश्चाशीविषोपमान् । संक्रुद्धः पार्षतं कर्णो नवभिः शरैस्ताडयामास ॥
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how martial excellence can be intensified by anger, yet it also implicitly warns that krodha (wrath) drives escalation: first disabling the opponent’s weapon, then inflicting direct injury—showing the moral tension between warrior duty and uncontrolled passion.
Karna severs Dṛṣṭadyumna’s bow and cuts down his serpent-like, deadly arrows; then, enraged, he wounds Dṛṣṭadyumna with nine arrows.