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 ||
三阇耶说道：他驾着鸽色骏马，光辉如月如日；普利沙塔之子（德里什塔丢摩那）手执弓矢，赫然炽耀——宛如“时”本身具形而来，降临战场。
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.