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Mahābhārata • Parva 9 (Śalyaparva) • Adhyāya 14

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 14

शल्यपर्व • अध्यायः 14

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 14 of the classical Mahābhārata with 42 verses.

Total: 42 Verses • Citations: MBh 9.14.1–42 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
दुर्योधनो महाराज धृष्टद्युम्नश्च पार्षतः । चक्रतुः सुमहद्युद्धं शरशक्तिसमाकुलम् ॥
English Translation
Sanjaya said Duryodhana, O king and Dhrishtadyumna, the son of Prishata, fought a dreadful fight with enough arrows and darts.
तयोरासन्महाराज शरधाराः सहस्रशः । अम्बुदानां यथा काले जलधाराः समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
Both of them, O king shot arrows like showers of rain poured by the clouds in the rainy season.
राजा तु पार्षतं विद्ध्वा शरैः पञ्चभिरायसैः । द्रोणहन्तारमुग्रेषुः पुनर्विव्याध सप्तभिः ॥
English Translation
Having struck with five arrows the slayer of Drona, viz., Prishata's son the Kuru king again struck him with seven arrows.
धृष्टद्युम्नस्तु समरे बलवान्दृढविक्रमः । सप्तत्या विशिखानां वै दुर्योधनमपीडयत् ॥
English Translation
The powerful and steady Dhrishtadyumna, in that battle, assailed Duryodhana with seventy arrows.
पीडितं प्रेक्ष्य राजानं सोदर्या भरतर्षभ । महत्या सेनया सार्धं परिवव्रुः स्म पार्षतम् ॥
English Translation
Seeing the king thus assailed, O foremost of Bharatas, his brothers, accompanied by a large force, surrounded the son of Prishata.
स तैः परिवृतः शूरैः सर्वतोऽतिरथैर्भृशम् । व्यचरत्समरे राजन्दर्शयन्हस्तलाघवम् ॥
English Translation
Surrounded by those great warriors on every side, the Panchala hero, O king, moved in the battle-field, displaying his quickness in the use of weapons.
शिखण्डी कृतवर्माणं गौतमं च महारथम् । प्रभद्रकैः समायुक्तो योधयामास धन्विनौ ॥
English Translation
Helped by the Prabhadrakas, Shikhandin fought with the two Kuru bowmen, Kritavarman and the great car-warrior Kripa.
तत्रापि सुमहद्युद्धं घोररूपं विशां पते । प्राणान्संत्यजतां युद्धे प्राणद्यूताभिदेवने ॥
English Translation
Then, O king, that battle became fierce and awful because the warriors were all bent upon sacrificing their lives.
शल्यस्तु शरवर्षाणि विमुञ्चन्सर्वतोदिशम् । पाण्डवान्पीडयामास ससात्यकिवृकोदरान् ॥
English Translation
Discharging arrows on all sides Shalya assailed the Pandavas with Satyaki and Vrikodara amongst them.
तथोभौ च यमौ युद्धे यमतुल्यपराक्रमौ । योधयामास राजेन्द्र वीर्येण च बलेन च ॥
English Translation
O king, with patience and great strength, the king of the Madras at the same time fought with the twins Nakula and Sahadeva, each of whom was powerful like the Destroyer himself.
शल्यसायकनुन्नानां पाण्डवानां महामृधे । त्रातारं नाध्यगच्छन्त केचित्तत्र महारथाः ॥
English Translation
The great car-warriors among the Pandavas who were wounded in that great battle with the arrows of Shalya, could not find a protector.
ततस्तु नकुलः शूरो धर्मराजे प्रपीडिते । अभिदुद्राव वेगेन मातुलं माद्रिनन्दनः ॥
English Translation
Seeing the just king Yudhishthira greatly assailed the heroic Nakula, the son of Madri, rushed with force against his maternal uncle.
संछाद्य समरे शल्यं नकुलः परवीरहा । विव्याध चैनं दशभिः स्मयमानः स्तनान्तरे ॥
English Translation
Covering Shalya in that batile Nakula, that slayer of hostile heroes, smiling struck him in the breast with ten other arrows, made entirely of iron, polished by the smith, equipt with wings of gold whetted on stone and discharged from his bow with great force.
सर्वपारशवैर्बाणैः कर्मारपरिमार्जितैः । स्वर्णपुङ्खैः शिलाधौतैर्धनुर्यन्त्रप्रचोदितैः ॥
English Translation
Covering Shalya in that batile Nakula, that slayer of hostile heroes, smiling struck him in the breast with ten other arrows, made entirely of iron, polished by the smith, equipt with wings of gold whetted on stone and discharged from his bow with great force.
शल्यस्तु पीडितस्तेन स्वस्रीयेण महात्मना । नकुलं पीडयामास पत्रिभिर्नतपर्वभिः ॥
English Translation
Assailed by his illustrious nephew, Shalya struck him in return with many straight arrows.
ततो युधिष्ठिरो राजा भीमसेनोऽथ सात्यकिः । सहदेवश्च माद्रेयो मद्रराजमुपाद्रवन् ॥
English Translation
Then king Yudhishthira, Bhimasena, Satyaki and Sahadeva the son of Madri, all rushed against the king of the Madras.
तानापतत एवाशु पूरयानान्रथस्वनैः । दिशश्च प्रदिशश्चैव कम्पयानांश्च मेदिनीम् । प्रतिजग्राह समरे सेनापतिरमित्रजित् ॥
English Translation
That vanquisher of foes, the commander of the Kuru army, received in that battle all those heroes that rushed towards him vehemently filling the cardinal and the subsidiary points of the compass with the rattle of their cars and causing the Earth to tremble.
युधिष्ठिरं त्रिभिर्विद्ध्वा भीमसेनं च सप्तभिः । सात्यकिं च शतेनाजौ सहदेवं त्रिभिः शरैः ॥
ततस्तु सशरं चापं नकुलस्य महात्मनः । मद्रेश्वरः क्षुरप्रेण तदा चिच्छेद मारिष । तदशीर्यत विच्छिन्नं धनुः शल्यस्य सायकैः ॥
English Translation
Then the king of the Madras, O sire, cut off, with a razor-headed arrow, the bow with arrow fixed on it of the great Nakula.
अथान्यद्धनुरादाय माद्रीपुत्रो महारथः । मद्रराजरथं तूर्णं पूरयामास पत्रिभिः ॥
English Translation
Taking up another bow, Madri's son quickly covered the king of the Madras with winged arrows.
युधिष्ठिरस्तु मद्रेशं सहदेवश्च मारिष । दशभिर्दशभिर्बाणैरुरस्येनमविध्यताम् ॥
English Translation
Then Yudhishthira and Sahadeva, each struck the king of the Madras with ten arrows on the breast.
भीमसेनस्ततः षष्ट्या सात्यकिर्नवभिः शरैः । मद्रराजमभिद्रुत्य जघ्नतुः कङ्कपत्रिभिः ॥
English Translation
Rushing at the ruler of the Madras Bhimasena and Satyaki both struck him with Kanka-feathered arrows, the former with sixty and the latter with ten.
मद्रराजस्ततः क्रुद्धः सात्यकिं नवभिः शरैः । विव्याध भूयः सप्तत्या शराणां नतपर्वणाम् ॥
English Translation
Enraged at this, the ruler of the Madras struck Satyaki with nine arrows and again with seventy straight arrows.
अथास्य सशरं चापं मुष्टौ चिच्छेद मारिष । हयांश्च चतुरः संख्ये प्रेषयामास मृत्यवे ॥
English Translation
Then O king, he cut off at the handle the bow, with arrow fixed on it, of Satyaki and then killed the four horses of the latter.
विरथं सात्यकिं कृत्वा मद्रराजो महाबलः । विशिखानां शतेनैनमाजघान समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
Having made Satyaki carless, that great carwarrior, the king of the Madras, struck him with a hundred arrows from all sides.
माद्रीपुत्रौ तु संरब्धौ भीमसेनं च पाण्डवम् । युधिष्ठिरं च कौरव्य विव्याध दशभिः शरैः ॥
English Translation
He next struck the two angry sons of Madri and Bhimasena the son of Pandu and Yudhishthira, O Kuru chief, with ten arrows each.
तत्राद्भुतमपश्याम मद्रराजस्य पौरुषम् । यदेनं सहिताः पार्था नाभ्यवर्तन्त संयुगे ॥
English Translation
The prowess of the king of the Madras was highly wonderful, since the Parthas, even in a body, could not approach him in that battle.
अथान्यं रथमास्थाय सात्यकिः सत्यविक्रमः । पीडितान्पाण्डवान्दृष्ट्वा मद्रराजवशं गतान् । अभिदुद्राव वेगेन मद्राणामधिपं बली ॥
English Translation
Riding then upon another car, the mighty and powerful Satyaki, seeing the Pandavas assailed and yielding to the king of the Madras, rushed quickly against him.
आपतन्तं रथं तस्य शल्यः समितिशोभनः । प्रत्युद्ययौ रथेनैव मत्तो मत्तमिव द्विपम् ॥
English Translation
Shalya rushed, on his car, against the car of Satyaki, like one infuriate elephant against another.
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