Shloka 5
Karṇa-vadha-pratyaya: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Verification of Karṇa’s Fall (कर्णवध-प्रत्ययः)
पारावतसवर्णाश्विश्रन्द्रादित्यसमद्युति: । पार्षत: प्रबभौ धन््वी कालो विग्रहवानिव
pārāvata-savarṇāśviś candrāditya-sama-dyutiḥ | pārṣataḥ prababhau dhanvī kālo vigrahavān iva ||
Sañjaya nói: Với những chiến mã màu như chim bồ câu và hào quang sánh cùng trăng và mặt trời, con trai của Pṛṣata (Dhṛṣṭadyumna), tay cầm cung, bừng sáng—như Thời Gian tự thân hóa hiện giữa chiến địa.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a warrior’s emergence in cosmic terms: in war, human action is overshadowed by Kāla (Time/Death), reminding readers that power and brilliance are transient and that outcomes unfold within a larger, inexorable order.
Sañjaya describes Dhṛṣṭadyumna entering the scene in striking splendor—his chariot team likened to doves and his presence compared to the combined radiance of Moon and Sun—so formidable that he seems like embodied Time moving through the battlefield.