Shloka 45
Śalya–Bhīma Gadā-saṃnipāta and Śalya’s Bāṇa-jāla against Yudhiṣṭhira
Book 9, Chapter 11
अविद्धयदाचार्यसुतो नातिक्ुद्धों हसन्निव | आचार्य द्रोणके पुत्र अश्वत्थामाने अधिक क़्ुद्ध न होकर हँसते हुए-से दस-दस बाणोंद्वारा द्रौपदीके वीर पुत्रोंमेंसे प्रयेकको घायल कर दिया ।।
sañjaya uvāca | avidhyad ācāryasuto nātikruddho hasann iva | daśa-daśa-bāṇair draupadī-vīra-putrāṇāṃ pratyekaṃ vyathayām āsa || punaś ca bhīmasenasya hayān jaghāna sa hāve | aśvān hateṣu mahābāhuḥ pāṇḍuputro bhīmasenaḥ kṣipraṃ rathād avatarat | kupito daṇḍam udyamya kāla-sannibhaṃ gadāṃ gṛhītvā kṛtavarmaṇaḥ hayāṃś ca rathaṃ ca cūrṇayām āsa | kṛtavarmā tu tasmād rathāt plutyāpalāyata ||
三阇耶说道：德罗那之子阿湿婆他摩（Aśvatthāmā）并未怒火滔天，反似含笑一般，以十支箭分别射伤德劳帕蒂的每一位英勇之子。与此同时，毗摩塞那已登上另一辆战车；在激战之中，克利多跋摩（Kṛtavarmā）又一次杀死了毗摩的战马。马既被杀，般度之子、力大无比的毗摩立刻从车上跃下。怒不可遏，他举起兵器如刑杖，执起铁锤如同死神亲临，将克利多跋摩的马与战车砸得粉碎。克利多跋摩遂从那车上跳下，仓皇遁走。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights how warfare tests inner discipline: Aśvatthāmā’s controlled, almost smiling precision contrasts with Bhīma’s explosive wrath. It implicitly raises an ethical tension central to kṣatriya-dharma—skill and restraint versus anger-driven retaliation—showing how emotions can rapidly intensify violence and destabilize conduct on the battlefield.
Sañjaya reports that Aśvatthāmā wounds each of Draupadī’s sons with ten arrows. Kṛtavarmā then kills Bhīma’s horses again; Bhīma jumps down, enraged, and with a death-like mace smashes Kṛtavarmā’s horses and chariot. Kṛtavarmā escapes by leaping away and fleeing.