Shloka 7
Bhīmasena’s Eastern Digvijaya and the Cedi Reception
Sabhā-parva 26
स तानपि महेष्वासान् विजिग्ये भरतर्षभ । तैरेव सहित: सर्व: प्राग्ज्योतिषमुपाद्रवत्,भरतकुलभूषण जनमेजय! अर्जुनने उन महान् धनुर्धरोंको भी जीत लिया और उन सबको साथ लेकर प्राग्ज्योतिषपुरपर धावा किया
sa tān api maheṣvāsān vijigye bharatarṣabha | tair eva sahitaḥ sarvaḥ prāgjyotiṣam upādravat |
اے بھرتوں کے سرفراز! ارجن نے اُن عظیم کمانداروں کو بھی مغلوب کر لیا، اور اُن سب کو ساتھ لے کر پراگ جیوتش پور پر چڑھائی کے لیے بڑھا۔
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights a political-ethical pattern in royal campaigns: victory is not only the defeat of opponents but also their incorporation into a larger order. Conquest here functions as consolidation—transforming resistance into alliance—suggesting that power, when exercised effectively, aims at establishing stable dominion rather than mere destruction.
Arjuna defeats a group of formidable archers and then proceeds toward Prāgjyotiṣa to attack it, taking those very defeated warriors along with him as part of his advancing force.