Shloka 48
अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च
Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter
जिष्णुं च जिष्णुकर्माणं देवापिं भद्रमेव च
jiṣṇuṃ ca jiṣṇukarmāṇaṃ devāpiṃ bhadrameva ca | nijaghāna susaṃkruddhaś cedīnāṃ ca mahārathān ||
Sinabi ni Sañjaya: “Pagkaraan, si Karṇa, nag-aalab sa mabangis na poot, ay pinabagsak sina Jiṣṇu, Jiṣṇukarmā, Devāpi, at Bhadrā, kasama ang iba pang dakilang mandirigmang-karwahe ng lupain ng Cedi.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how krodha (anger) intensifies violence and accelerates destruction in war. Even within kṣatriya-dharma, the epic repeatedly signals that wrath narrows judgment and multiplies suffering, making victory morally costly.
Sañjaya reports to the king that Karṇa, in a surge of rage, kills several named warriors—identified as mahārathas associated with the Cedi side—showing Karṇa’s lethal momentum on the battlefield at this stage of the war.