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Mahābhārata • Parva 8 (Karṇaparva) • Adhyāya 18

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 18

कर्णपर्व • अध्यायः 18

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 18 of the classical Mahābhārata with 77 verses.

Total: 77 Verses • Citations: MBh 8.18.1–77 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 3 (Verses 17 shown)
शङ्खं च पूरयामास मुहुर्मुहुररिंदमः । पार्षतं प्राद्रवद्यन्तं महेन्द्र इव शम्बरम् ॥
English Translation
That chastiser of foes blew his conch over and over again, and then he routed the son of Prishata, even as Indra routed Namuchi (a Danava, in the battle of old).
शिखण्डिनं तु समरे भीष्ममृत्युं दुरासदम् । हार्दिक्यो वारयामास स्मयन्निव मुहुर्मुहुः ॥
English Translation
The son of Hridika, smiling over and over again, resisted Shikhandin, who was the cause of death of Bhishma and most invincible in the field of battle.
शिखण्डी च समासाद्य हृदिकानां महारथम् । पञ्चभिर्निशितैर्भल्लैर्जत्रुदेशे समार्दयत् ॥
English Translation
Shikhandin, however, coming against the mightiest car-warrior of the Hridika race struck him with five sharp and broad-headed arrows at the shoulder-joint.
कृतवर्मा तु संक्रुद्धो भित्त्वा षष्टिभिराशुगैः । धनुरेकेन चिच्छेद हसन्राजन्महारथः ॥
English Translation
O king, the mighty car-warrior, Kritavarman, indeed, being highly enraged, penetrated through his antagonist with sixty winged arrows and then, smiling for a time, severed his bow with one individual shaft.
अथान्यद्धनुरादाय द्रुपदस्यात्मजो बली । तिष्ठ तिष्ठेति संक्रुद्धो हार्दिक्यं प्रत्यभाषत ॥
English Translation
Taking up another bow, the most powerful son of Drupada, being greatly enraged, replied to the son of Hridika saying, Wait, Wait.
ततोऽस्य नवतिं बाणान्रुक्मपुङ्खान्सुतेजनान् । प्रेषयामास राजेन्द्र तेऽस्याभ्रश्यन्त वर्मणः ॥
English Translation
O lord of kings, then he (Shikhandin) shot at his antagonist ninety arrows, that were furnished with the wings of gold and possessed of great force. But these arrows were shot back from his (Kritavarman's) armour.
वितथांस्तान्समालक्ष्य पतितांश्च महीतले । क्षुरप्रेण सुतीक्ष्णेन कार्मुकं चिच्छिदे बली ॥
English Translation
Beholding those arrows thus sent back and scattered over the ground, he (Shikhandin) severed his dreadful bow with a sharp, razorhanded shaft.
अथैनं छिन्नधन्वानं भग्नशृङ्गमिवर्षभम् । अशीत्या मार्गणैः क्रुद्धो बाह्वोरुरसि चार्दयत् ॥
English Translation
Then having been filled with rage, he struck this one (the son of Hridika), who, with his severed bow, resembled a bull with his broken horns, with eighty different arrows both in the chest and arms.
कृतवर्मा तु संक्रुद्धो मार्गणैः कृतविक्षतः । धनुरन्यत्समादाय समार्गणगणं प्रभो । शिखण्डिनं बाणवरैः स्कन्धदेशेऽभ्यताडयत् ॥
English Translation
Then the lord (Kritavarman), taking up another bow that was furnished with its string and an arrow, afflicted Shikhandin with the foremost of shafts in the shoulder.
स्कन्धदेशे स्थितैर्बाणैः शिखण्डी च रराज ह । शाखाप्रतानैर्विमलैः सुमहान्स यथा द्रुमः ॥
English Translation
Shikhandin, indeed, shone most brightly with these shafts, sticking on his shoulders; even as a large tree looks very pretty with its numerous branches and twigs.
तावन्योन्यं भृशं विद्ध्वा रुधिरेण समुक्षितौ । अन्योन्यशृङ्गाभिहतौ रेजतुर्वृषभाविव ॥
English Translation
Both the warriors, who were smeared with blood, after having penetrated each other deeply, looked like two bulls, that wounded each other with their horns.
अन्योन्यस्य वधे यत्नं कुर्वाणौ तौ महारथौ । रथाभ्यां चेरतुस्तत्र मण्डलानि सहस्रशः ॥
English Translation
Those two most powerful car-warriors, who made efforts in slaying each other, whirled round upon their cars, thereby creating thousands of circle, there (in the battle).
कृतवर्मा महाराज पार्षतं निशितैः शरैः । रणे विव्याध सप्तत्या स्वर्णपुङ्खैः शिलाशितैः ॥
English Translation
O great king, Kritavarman pierced the son of Prishata in the battle with seventy sharp arrows, that were furnished with golden wings and also that were whetted on atone.
ततोऽस्य समरे बाणं भोजः प्रहरतां वरः । जीवितान्तकरं घोरं व्यसृजत्त्वरयान्वितः ॥
English Translation
Thereupon the prince of the Bhojas, that foremost of chastisers of foes, shot with great activity at his antagonist a dreadful arrow, that was capable of bringing about the destruction of life, in the field of battle.
स तेनाभिहतो राजन्मूर्छामाशु समाविशत् । ध्वजयष्टिं च सहसा शिश्रिये कश्मलावृतः ॥
English Translation
O monarch, he, being thus wounded by that arrow, fall into the condition of insensibility; and he, being so choked with stupefaction, suddenly supported himself by holding his flag-staff.
अपोवाह रणात्तं तु सारथी रथिनां वरम् । हार्दिक्यशरसंतप्तं निःश्वसन्तं पुनः पुनः ॥
English Translation
Thus his charioteer immediately carried away from the field of battle that foremost of car-warriors, who was highly afflicted by the arrows of the son of Hridika and was sighing repeatedly.
पराजिते ततः शूरे द्रुपदस्य सुते प्रभो । प्राद्रवत्पाण्डवी सेना वध्यमाना समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
Thereupon, O lord, when the war-like son of Drupada was defeated, the whole army of the Pandavas, being slain on all sides, retreated from the field of battle.
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