Special Call Prof. Jay L. Garfield Commemorative Volume · Submissions Open
Announcements Newsletters About Us Contact
Search
MBh
Mahābhārata • Parva 8 (Karṇaparva) • Adhyāya 12

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 12

कर्णपर्व • अध्यायः 12

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 12 of the classical Mahābhārata with 72 verses.

Total: 72 Verses • Citations: MBh 8.12.1–72 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 3 (Verses 12 shown)
तेषां द्विपानां विचकर्त पार्थो; वर्माणि मर्माणि करान्नियन्तॄन् । ध्वजाः पताकाश्च ततः प्रपेतु;र्वज्राहतानीव गिरेः शिरांसि ॥
English Translation
The son of Pritha severed into fragments, the armour, the vital parts, the trunks, the riders, the standards and flags of those elephants, which then fell down upon the earth, even as the summits of mountains drop down on the ground, when smitten by the thunder.
तेषु प्ररुग्णेषु गुरोस्तनूजं; बाणैः किरीटी नवसूर्यवर्णैः । प्रच्छादयामास महाभ्रजालै;र्वायुः समुद्युक्तमिवांशुमन्तम् ॥
English Translation
When that elephant force was entirely destroyed, the diadem-decked one (Arjuna) closed the son of his preceptor with arrows, having the color of the newly-risen sun; even as the wind wholly covers the risen sun with the net-work of vast masses of clouds.
ततोऽर्जुनेषूनिषुभिर्निरस्य; द्रौणिः शरैरर्जुनवासुदेवौ । प्रच्छादयित्व दिवि चन्द्रसूर्यौ; ननाद सोऽम्भोद इवातपान्ते ॥
English Translation
Then having restrained the shafts of Arjuna with the arrows of his own, the son of Drona after closing both Arjuna and Vasudeva with innumerable shafts, roared most loudly; even as the vast mass of clouds, appearing in the firmament at the end of the summer season, after covering both the sun and the moon, makes a loud uproar.
तमर्जुनस्तांश्च पुनस्त्वदीया;नभ्यर्दितस्तैरविकृत्तशस्त्रैः । बाणान्धकारं सहसैव कृत्वा; विव्याध सर्वानिषुभिः सुपुङ्खैः ॥
English Translation
Arjuna having been highly oppressed with those weapons and having dispelled the darkness (caused with the arrowy showers of Ashvaithaman), suddenly darkened all with the torrents of arrows and again and again pierced him (Ashvatthaman) and all those, belonging to your army, with arrows furnished with the excellent wings.
नाप्याददत्संदधन्नैव मुञ्च;न्बाणान्रणेऽदृश्यत सव्यसाची । हतांश्च नागांस्तुरगान्पदाती;न्संस्यूतदेहान्ददृशू रथांश्च ॥
English Translation
Savyasachin could not be seen while taking up the arrows, or aiming them, or shooting them. But only this could be seen that the elephants, the horses, the foot-soldiers and the cars (i.e. the car-warriors), with their bodies cut-off, were slain (with the arrows of Arjuna).
संधाय नाराचवरान्दशाशु; द्रौणिस्त्वरन्नेकमिवोत्ससर्ज । तेषां च पञ्चार्जुनमभ्यविध्य;न्पञ्चाच्युतं निर्बिभिदुः सुमुक्ताः ॥
English Translation
Then the son of Drona, after having immediately aimed ten foremost of arrows, shot them, as if one with great activity. Of these ten shafts, excellently shot, five pierced Arjuna and the remaining five deeply penetrated that Eternal One (Keshava).
तैराहतौ सर्वमनुष्यमुख्या;वसृक्क्षरन्तौ धनदेन्द्रकल्पौ । समाप्तविद्येन यथाभिभूतौ; हतौ स्विदेतौ किमु मेनिरेऽन्ये ॥
English Translation
All the people considered these two foremost of persons, resembling Kubera and Indra, who being struck with those arrows, were drenched in blood (i.e. blood having flowed down their limbs) and who were highly afflicted by that one, who had completed his education (in the science of arms), slain in the field of battle.
अथार्जुनं प्राह दशार्हनाथः; प्रमाद्यसे किं जहि योधमेतम् । कुर्याद्धि दोषं समुपेक्षितोऽसौ; कष्टो भवेद्व्याधिरिवाक्रियावान् ॥
English Translation
Thereupon the king of the Dasharha race, said to Arjuna these words-Why do you make this mistake? Do you slay this heroic chief. This will, indeed, be committing a great fault, if this person be neglected, who will hereafter be the cause of great uneasiness, even as the disease, if neglected, becomes the cause of great woe.
तथेति चोक्त्वाच्युतमप्रमादी; द्रौणिं प्रयत्नादिषुभिस्ततक्ष । छित्त्वाश्वरश्मींस्तुरगानविध्य;त्ते तं रणादूहुरतीव दूरम् ॥
आवृत्य नेयेष पुनस्तु युद्धं; पार्थेन सार्धं मतिमान्विमृश्य । जानञ्जयं नियतं वृष्णिवीरे; धनंजये चाङ्गिरसां वरिष्ठः ॥
English Translation
The son of Drona, who was thus carried away from the field, on those horses, as swift as the wind, became deeply afflicted with the arrows of the son of Pritha. Then that intelligent one (Ashvatthaman) having meditated for a while, liked not to return back with a view to fight with the son of Pritha. The most exalted one of the Angirasa's race, who was possessed of immense activity and who became destitute of all aspirations and who had all his arrows and weapons exhausted, after knowing that victory was ever with the chief of the Vrishni race and Dhananjaya, entered into the army of Karna.
प्रतीपकाये तु रणादश्वत्थाम्नि हृते हयैः । मन्त्रौषधिक्रियादानैर्व्याधौ देहादिवाहृते ॥
English Translation
When Ashvatthaman, who was their bitterest enemy, had been carried away by the horses from the field of battle, even as the disease is driven away from the body by incantations, medicines and efficacious means.
संशप्तकानभिमुखौ प्रयातौ केशवार्जुनौ । वातोद्धूतपताकेन स्यन्दनेनौघनादिना ॥
English Translation
Both Keshava and Arjuna, riding upon cars, with flags waved by the wind and whose rattle was like the loud roar of the clouds, advanced towards the front of the army of the Samsaptakas.
← Previous (Ch. 1161) Full Table of Contents Next (Ch. 1163) →