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Mahābhārata • Parva 8 (Karṇaparva) • Adhyāya 11

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 11

कर्णपर्व • अध्यायः 11

Karṇaparva Adhyāya 11 of the classical Mahābhārata with 42 verses.

Total: 42 Verses • Citations: MBh 8.11.1–42 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
भीमसेनं ततो द्रौणी राजन्विव्याध पत्रिणा । त्वरया परया युक्तो दर्शयन्नस्त्रलाघवम् ॥
English Translation
Sanjaya said Thereupon, O king, the son of Drona, who was possessed of great alacrity and who showed easiness in the management of weapons, pierced Bhimasena with an arrow.
अथैनं पुनराजघ्ने नवत्या निशितैः शरैः । सर्वमर्माणि संप्रेक्ष्य मर्मज्ञो लघुहस्तवत् ॥
English Translation
In the same way, he (the son of Drona), who was well acquainted with the different vital parts of the body and who, again, was very smart in the management of his arms, after having seen all the vital parts of his body, had struck him with ninety sharp-headed shafts.
भीमसेनः समाकीर्णो द्रौणिना निशितैः शरैः । रराज समरे राजन्रश्मिवानिव भास्करः ॥
English Translation
O monarch. Bhimasenc, having been closed with a shower of keen arrows by the son of Drona, shone in the field of battle like the sun with all his rays.
ततः शरसहस्रेण सुप्रयुक्तेन पाण्डवः । द्रोणपुत्रमवच्छाद्य सिंहनादममुञ्चत ॥
English Translation
Thereupon the Pandava, after having covered the son of Drona with one thousand arrows, well-aimed, sent forth a leonine roar.
शरैः शरांस्ततो द्रौणिः संवार्य युधि पाण्डवम् । ललाटेऽभ्यहनद्राजन्नाराचेन स्मयन्निव ॥
English Translation
Then, O monarch, the son of Drona, having checked the course of his (antagonist's) shafts by his own arrows in the field of battle, smilingly struck the son of Pandu in the forehead with a dart.
ललाटस्थं ततो बाणं धारयामास पाण्डवः । यथा शृङ्गं वने दृप्तः खड्गो धारयते नृप ॥
English Translation
Thereafter, O king, the son of (Pandu), carried the shafts, that was struck in his forehead; even as the proud rhinoceros in the forest bears his horn.
ततो द्रौणिं रणे भीमो यतमानं पराक्रमी । त्रिभिर्विव्याध नाराचैर्ललाटे विस्मयन्निव ॥
English Translation
Then Bhima of immense prowess smilingly pierced the son of Drona, who attempted very hard in the battle, in the forehead with three shafts.
ललाटस्थैस्ततो बाणैर्ब्राह्मणः स व्यरोचत । प्रावृषीव यथा सिक्तस्त्रिशृङ्गः पर्वतोत्तमः ॥
English Translation
Then this twice-born person looked most resplendent with the arrows struck in his forehead; even as the best of mountains, being washed (with water) during the rainy season, looks resplendent with its three peaks.
ततः शरशतैर्द्रौणिमर्दयामास पाण्डवः । न चैनं कम्पयामास मातरिश्वेव पर्वतम् ॥
English Translation
Thus the son of Drona afflicted the son of Pandu with hundreds of arrows, but he could not shake him; even as the wind cannot shake the mountain.
तथैव पाण्डवं युद्धे द्रौणिः शरशतैः शितैः । नाकम्पयत संहृष्टो वार्योघ इव पर्वतम् ॥
English Translation
In the same way, the son of Pandu, highly gratified, could not shake the son of Drona, in the field of battle, with hundreds of his sharphanded arrows; even as the torrents of rain cannot shake the mountain.
तावन्योन्यं शरैर्घोरैश्छादयानौ महारथौ । रथचर्यागतौ शूरौ शुशुभाते रणोत्कटौ ॥
English Translation
Those two mighty car-warriors, the two heroic warriors of terrible prowess, having covered each other with their dreadful shafts, looked very handsome, sitting upon their cars.
आदित्याविव संदीप्तौ लोकक्षयकरावुभौ । स्वरश्मिभिरिवान्योन्यं तापयन्तौ शरोत्तमैः ॥
English Translation
Both (the heroes) looked resplendent like two suns and were destructive of men on each other's side. Moreover both of them burnt each other by their own excellent arrows, that resembled their own rays.
कृतप्रतिकृते यत्नं कुर्वाणौ च महारणे । कृतप्रतिकृते यत्नं चक्राते तावभीतवत् ॥
व्याघ्राविव च संग्रामे चेरतुस्तौ महारथौ । शरदंष्ट्रौ दुराधर्षौ चापव्यात्तौ भयानकौ ॥
English Translation
Those two foremost of persons, those invincible and fierce heroes, whose teeth were constituted by the shafts and whose mouths were formed by the bows, roved about in the field of battle like two terrible tigers.
अभूतां तावदृश्यौ च शरजालैः समन्ततः । मेघजालैरिव च्छन्नौ गगने चन्द्रभास्करौ ॥
English Translation
Both of them became invisible on account of the torrents of shafts in all sides; even as both the sun and the moon in the firmament become invisible, when they are covered over by the net-work of clouds.
प्रकाशौ च मुहूर्तेन तत्रैवास्तामरिंदमौ । विमुक्तौ मेघजालेन शशिसूर्यौ यथा दिवि ॥
English Translation
Then the two smiters of foes appeared for a very short while and shone forth like Mars and Mercury, when they become wholly released from the cover of clouds.
अपसव्यं ततश्चक्रे द्रौणिस्तत्र वृकोदरम् । किरञ्शरशतैरुग्रैर्धाराभिरिव पर्वतम् ॥
न तु तन्ममृषे भीमः शत्रोर्विजयलक्षणम् । प्रतिचक्रे च तं राजन्पाण्डवोऽप्यपसव्यतः ॥
मण्डलानां विभागेषु गतप्रत्यागतेषु च । बभूव तुमुलं युद्धं तयोस्तत्र महामृधे ॥
चरित्वा विविधान्मार्गान्मण्डलं स्थानमेव च । शरैः पूर्णायतोत्सृष्टैरन्योन्यमभिजघ्नतुः ॥
अन्योन्यस्य वधे यत्नं चक्रतुस्तौ महारथौ । ईषतुर्विरथं चैव कर्तुमन्योन्यमाहवे ॥
ततो द्रौणिर्महास्त्राणि प्रादुश्चक्रे महारथः । तान्यस्त्रैरेव समरे प्रतिजघ्नेऽस्य पाण्डवः ॥
English Translation
Again, each of them wished to make the other carless in the field. Thereupon the son of Drona, that mighty car-warrior, imparted strength to the most powerful weapons, which, indeed the son of Pandu frustrated by the weapons of his own, in the battle.
ततो घोरं महाराज अस्त्रयुद्धमवर्तत । ग्रहयुद्धं यथा घोरं प्रजासंहरणे अभूत् ॥
English Translation
Then, O mighty king, there ensued a very dreadful battle of weapons, even as there had taken place a very terrible battle of the planets, during the time of destruction of creatures of the universe.
ते बाणाः समसज्जन्त क्षिप्तास्ताभ्यां तु भारत । द्योतयन्तो दिशः सर्वास्तच्च सैन्यं समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
O descendant of the Bharata race, those arrows, shot by both of them, struck one another, and thus illumined all the points of the i horizon, as well as the troops on your side, from all directions. even
बाणसंघावृतं घोरमाकाशं समपद्यत । उक्लापातकृतं यद्वत्प्रजानां संक्षये नृप ॥
English Translation
O king, the firmament looked very fearful as it was wholly covered by the showers of arrows, it appears during the destruction of the creatures of the universe, when it is entirely shrouded by the fall of the meteors.
बाणाभिघातात्संजज्ञे तत्र भारत पावकः । सविस्फुलिङ्गो दीप्तार्चिः सोऽदहद्वाहिनीद्वयम् ॥
English Translation
O descendant of the Bharata race, there (in the field of battle) was produced a great fire by the counteraction of shafts from both the parties, which, viz. the fire was attended with sparks and blazing flames. It continued to burn both the hosts.
तत्र सिद्धा महाराज संपतन्तोऽब्रुवन्वचः । अति युद्धानि सर्वाणि युद्धमेतत्ततोऽधिकम् ॥
सर्वयुद्धानि चैतस्य कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम् । नैतादृशं पुनर्युद्धं न भूतं न भविष्यति ॥
अहो ज्ञानेन संयुक्तावुभौ चोग्रपराक्रमौ । अहो भीमे बलं भीममेतयोश्च कृतास्त्रता ॥
English Translation
O! both of them are endowed with heroism; and also they are of terrible prowess. 'O! Bhima is of fierce strength. O! what a great skill is possessed by the other.
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