Shloka 33
(अजय्यश्लवैव लोकानां सर्वेषामिति मे मति: ।) कारणद्वयमास्थाय नाहं योत्स्यामि पाण्डवान्
sañjaya uvāca | (ajayyaślavāiva lokānāṁ sarveṣām iti me matiḥ |) kāraṇadvayam āsthāya nāhaṁ yotsyāmi pāṇḍavān, atāḍayan raṇe bhīṣmaṁ sahitāḥ sarvasṛñjayāḥ | samastāḥ sṛñjayā vīrā ekasātha saṅgaṭhitāḥ bhayaṅkaraiḥ śataghnyā-parigha-phaśa-mudgara-muśala-prāsa-gophana-suvarṇamaya-pakṣavālaiḥ bāṇaiḥ śaktyā-tomaraiḥ kampana-nārāca-vatsadanta-bhuśuṇḍy-ādibhiḥ astrāśastraiḥ raṇabhūmau bhīṣmaṁ sarvataḥ pīḍayām āsuḥ |
三阇耶说道：“我深信，他确为诸世界所不能胜者。”然而，基于两重考量，他决意道：“我将不与般度诸子交战。”与此同时，战场上集结的斯林阇耶众仍一再击袭毗湿摩。众人同心合势，从四面八方以可怖兵器逼迫他——杀多伽尼、铁棒铁杠、斧、槌、木杵、矛、投石索、金翼之箭、沙克提、托摩罗、坎帕那、那罗迦、伐蹉檀多、布舒ṇḍī等诸般飞射与兵刃——欲压倒这位可敬的祖父、库鲁一方的擎天柱石。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even amid total war, the epic highlights the tension between martial duty and ethical restraint: a warrior may be deemed ‘invincible,’ yet choices—grounded in reasons and conscience—still shape action, and collective force can challenge even the greatest when dharma and strategy converge.
Sañjaya reports that Bhīṣma is regarded as unconquerable, but someone (in context, a key warrior) resolves not to fight the Pāṇḍavas for two reasons; at the same time, the Sṛñjaya fighters, acting together, surround and repeatedly strike Bhīṣma with many kinds of weapons, pressing him hard on the battlefield.