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Mahābhārata • Parva 8 (Karṇaparva) • Adhyāya 19

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 19

कर्णपर्व • अध्यायः 19

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 19 of the classical Mahābhārata with 76 verses.

Total: 76 Verses • Citations: MBh 8.19.1–76 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 3 of 3 (Verses 16 shown)
रथं नागाः समासाद्य धुरि गृह्य च मारिष । व्याक्षिपन्सहसा तत्र घोररूपे महामृधे ॥
नाराचैर्निहतश्चापि निपपात महागजः । पर्वतस्येव शिखरं वज्रभग्नं महीतले ॥
योधा योधान्समासाद्य मुष्टिभिर्व्यहनन्युधि । केशेष्वन्योन्यमाक्षिप्य चिच्छिदुर्बिभिदुः सह ॥
English Translation
In that battle, the warriors, battling with their combatants, struck them with their fists; and having dragged cach other with their hairs, hurled down and cut-off each other.
उद्यम्य च भुजावन्यो निक्षिप्य च महीतले । पदा चोरः समाक्रम्य स्फुरतो व्यहनच्छिरः ॥
English Translation
Some other combatants, having stretched their arms, hurled down their antagonists upon the ground, placed their feet upon their breasts and with great pleasure severed their heads.
मृतमन्यो महाराज पद्भ्यां ताडितवांस्तदा । जीवतश्च तथैवान्यः शस्त्रं काये न्यमज्जयत् ॥
English Translation
Some one of the combatants, O great king, smote down with his feet the dead antagonist; while some other, O monarch, severed the head of a falling enemy by means of his scimitar; and while some other combatant, again, directed his weapon at the body of another, who was still living.
मुष्टियुद्धं महच्चासीद्योधानां तत्र भारत । तथा केशग्रहश्चोग्रो बाहुयुद्धं च केवलम् ॥
English Translation
Thus, O descendant of the Bharata race, the inost dreadful encounters between heroes took place there, some striking one another with their fists, and some also fiercely seizing one another with their hairs; and some, again, wrestling with another with their arms most fearfully.
समासक्तस्य चान्येन अविज्ञातस्तथापरः । जहार समरे प्राणान्नानाशस्त्रैरनेकधा ॥
English Translation
Under various circumstances, some one of the combatants deprived the lives of many in the battle, who were engaged with others and were quite unconscious of the slaughter by means of several sorts of weapons.
संसक्तेषु च योधेषु वर्तमाने च संकुले । कबन्धान्युत्थितानि स्म शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः ॥
English Translation
In that general encounter, while the warriors were engaged in the battle and continued to be mangled, hundreds and thousands of headless bodies of the fallen warriors) stood upon the field.
लोहितैः सिच्यमानानि शस्त्राणि कवचानि च । महारङ्गानुरक्तानि वस्त्राणीव चकाशिरे ॥
English Translation
Diverse kinds of weapons and armours, that were drenched in blood, blazed forth like pieces of cloth, that are dyed with deep red.
एवमेतन्महायुद्धं दारुणं भृशसंकुलम् । उन्मत्तरङ्गप्रतिमं शब्देनापूरयज्जगत् ॥
English Translation
Thus this most dreadful and extraordinary battle, that was characterised by a confused din of diverse kinds of weapons, filled the entire universe with a noise even as the furious Ganges fills the earth with the roar of her currents.
नैव स्वे न परे राजन्विज्ञायन्ते शरातुराः । योद्धव्यमिति युध्यन्ते राजानो जयगृद्धिनः ॥
English Translation
O monarch, the combatants, being highly oppressed the shafts, could not make out their friends from the antagonists and the assembled princes, who were all very desirous of victory, continued to battle, considering (the fact), that they should fight.
स्वान्स्वे जघ्नुर्महाराज परांश्चैव समागतान् । उभयोः सेनयोर्वीरैर्व्याकुलं समपद्यत ॥
English Translation
O great monarch, the warriors began to slaughter both the friends and foes, who had assembled in that dreadful battle; and the warriors, belonging to both the forces, were rendered restless by the heroes, who engaged them.
रथैर्भग्नैर्महाराज वारणैश्च निपातितैः । हयैश्च पतितैस्तत्र नरैश्च विनिपातितैः ॥
English Translation
Within a very short time, the earth, that was covered with a mire consisting of flesh and blood and also by which the currents of blood flowed continuously, became, O lord of earth, impassable with the shattered cars and with the fallen elephants and the horses lying there about and also with men slaughtered (in the battle), O great monarch.
अगम्यरूपा पृथिवी मांसशोणितकर्दमा । क्षणेनासीन्महाराज क्षतजौघप्रवर्तिनी ॥
पाञ्चालानवधीत्कर्णस्त्रिगर्तांश्च धनंजयः । भीमसेनः कुरून्राजन्हस्त्यनीकं च सर्वशः ॥
एवमेष क्षयो वृत्तः कुरुपाण्डवसेनयोः । अपराह्णे महाराज काङ्क्षन्त्योर्विपुलं जयम् ॥
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