Shloka 42
ततः पुनर्व्यात्तमुखास्ते5श्मवृष्टी: समनन््ततः । अयोहस्ता: शूलहस्ता दरदास्तड्रणा: खसा:
tataḥ punar vyāttamukhās te ’śmavṛṣṭīḥ samanantataḥ | ayohastāḥ śūlahastā daradās taṅgaṇāḥ khasāḥ |
Wika ni Sanjaya: Pagkaraan, muli na naman, ang mababangis na mandirigmang iyon—nakanganga sa poot—ay nagsimulang magpaulan ng bato mula sa lahat ng panig. May hawak na pamalong bakal at nakataas ang trident—ang mga Darada, Taṅgaṇa, at Khasa—ay sumiksik sa paligid ni Sātyaki. Ngunit si Sātyaki, bihasa sa pagsalubong at pagkontra, ay dinurog at pinabagsak sila sa pamamagitan ng matutulis niyang palaso.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights steadfastness in one’s duty amid violence: even when surrounded and attacked from all sides, a warrior entrusted with protection must respond with skill and restraint appropriate to the battlefield, meeting force with disciplined counteraction rather than panic.
Frontier fighters—Daradas, Taṅgaṇas, and Khasas—surround Sātyaki and pelt him with stones while wielding iron weapons and tridents. Sātyaki counters effectively, breaking their assault with his arrows and cutting them down.