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Mahābhārata • Parva 9 (Śalyaparva) • Adhyāya 3

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 3

शल्यपर्व • अध्यायः 3

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 3 of the classical Mahābhārata with 51 verses.

Total: 51 Verses • Citations: MBh 9.3.1–51 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
शृणु राजन्नवहितो यथा वृत्तो महान्क्षयः । कुरूणां पाण्डवानां च समासाद्य परस्परम् ॥
English Translation
Sanjaya said Hear, O king, attentively how that great thousands of the Kurus and the Pandavas took place when they encountered each other.
निहते सूतपुत्रे तु पाण्डवेन महात्मना । विद्रुतेषु च सैन्येषु समानीतेषु चासकृत् ॥
English Translation
After the Suta's son had been killed by the illustrious son of Pandu and after the troops had been repeatedly collected and had repeatedly been routed and after a terrible ensaught had taken place, O foremost of men in battle after Karna's death, Partha began to utter leonine shouts. At that time your sons were possessed by great fear.
विमुखे तव पुत्रे तु शोकोपहतचेतसि । भृशोद्विग्नेषु सैन्येषु दृष्ट्वा पार्थस्य विक्रमम् ॥
ध्यायमानेषु सैन्येषु दुःखं प्राप्तेषु भारत । बलानां मथ्यमानानां श्रुत्वा निनदमुत्तमम् ॥
अभिज्ञानं नरेन्द्राणां विकृतं प्रेक्ष्य संयुगे । पतितान्रथनीडांश्च रथांश्चापि महात्मनाम् ॥
रणे विनिहतान्नागान्दृष्ट्वा पत्तींश्च मारिष । आयोधनं चातिघोरं रुद्रस्याक्रीडसंनिभम् ॥
अप्रख्यातिं गतानां तु राज्ञां शतसहस्रशः । कृपाविष्टः कृपो राजन्वयःशीलसमन्वितः ॥
अब्रवीत्तत्र तेजस्वी सोऽभिसृत्य जनाधिपम् । दुर्योधनं मन्युवशाद्वचनं वचनक्षमः ॥
दुर्योधन निबोधेदं यत्त्वा वक्ष्यामि कौरव । श्रुत्वा कुरु महाराज यदि ते रोचतेऽनघ ॥
न युद्धधर्माच्छ्रेयान्वै पन्था राजेन्द्र विद्यते । यं समाश्रित्य युध्यन्ते क्षत्रियाः क्षत्रियर्षभ ॥
English Translation
There is no path, O monarch, that is better than the duty of battle, Taking recourse to that path, Kshatriyas, O best of Kshatriyas, fight.
पुत्रो भ्राता पिता चैव स्वस्रेयो मातुलस्तथा । संबन्धिबान्धवाश्चैव योध्या वै क्षत्रजीविना ॥
English Translation
He who follows Kshatriya practices, fights with son, father, brother, sister son and maternal uncle and relatives and kinsmen.
वधे चैव परो धर्मस्तथाधर्मः पलायने । ते स्म घोरां समापन्ना जीविकां जीवितार्थिनः ॥
English Translation
If he is killed in battle, there is great merit in it. Similarly, there is great sin if he flies from the field. It is for this that the life of a Kshatriya is exceedingly hard.
तत्र त्वां प्रतिवक्ष्यामि किंचिदेव हितं वचः । हते भीष्मे च द्रोणे च कर्णे चैव महारथे ॥
English Translation
I will say a few wholesome words to you about this. After the fall of Bhishma and Drona and the mighty car-warrior Karna, after the slaughter of Jayadratlia and your brothers, O sinless one and your son Lakshmana, what is there now for us to do?
जयद्रथे च निहते तव भ्रातृषु चानघ । लक्ष्मणे तव पुत्रे च किं शेषं पर्युपास्महे ॥
English Translation
I will say a few wholesome words to you about this. After the fall of Bhishma and Drona and the mighty car-warrior Karna, after the slaughter of Jayadratlia and your brothers, O sinless one and your son Lakshmana, what is there now for us to do?
येषु भारं समासज्य राज्ये मतिमकुर्महि । ते संत्यज्य तनूर्याताः शूरा ब्रह्मविदां गतिम् ॥
English Translation
They, upon whom we had laid all burdens and been enjoying the kingdoin, have all repaired to regions of blessedness attainable by persons conversant with the knowledge of Brahma, casting off their bodies.
वयं त्विह विनाभूता गुणवद्भिर्महारथैः । कृपणं वर्तयिष्याम पातयित्वा नृपान्बहून् ॥
English Translation
As regards ourselves, deprived of those great car-warriors of numerous accomplishments, we shall have to pass our time in sorrow, having caused many kings to die.
सर्वैरपि च जीवद्भिर्बीभत्सुरपराजितः । कृष्णनेत्रो महाबाहुर्देवैरपि दुरासदः ॥
English Translation
When all those heroes were alive even then Vibhatsu could not be defeated. Having Krishna, for his cyes, that mighty armed hero is incapable of being defeated by the very gods!
इन्द्रकार्मुकवज्राभमिन्द्रकेतुमिवोच्छ्रितम् । वानरं केतुमासाद्य संचचाल महाचमूः ॥
English Translation
The vast Kaurava army, approaching his monkey-emblem standard that is high as Indra's pole set up in the spring and that is cffulgent as Indra's bow, has always shaken in fear.
सिंहनादेन भीमस्य पाञ्चजन्यस्वनेन च । गाण्डीवस्य च निर्घोषात्संहृष्यन्ति मनांसि नः ॥
English Translation
At the leonine shouts of Bhimasena and the blare of Panchajanya and the twang of Gandiva, our hearts will be paralyzed.
चरन्तीव महाविद्युन्मुष्णन्ती नयनप्रभाम् । अलातमिव चाविद्धं गाण्डीवं समदृश्यत ॥
English Translation
Moving like flashes of lighting and closing our eyes Arjuna's Gandiva is seen to resemble a circle of fire.
जाम्बूनदविचित्रं च धूयमानं महद्धनुः । दृश्यते दिक्षु सर्वासु विद्युदभ्रघनेष्विव ॥
English Translation
Adorned with pure gold, that bow, as it is shaken, looks like lightning moving about on all directions.
उह्यमानश्च कृष्णेन वायुनेव बलाहकः । तावकं तद्बलं राजन्नर्जुनोऽस्त्रविदां वरः । गहनं शिशिरे कक्षं ददाहाग्निरिवोत्थितः ॥
English Translation
That foremost of warriors, Arjuna, burnt that great force of yours like a rising fire consuming dry grass in the forest in the winter.
गाहमानमनीकानि महेन्द्रसदृशप्रभम् । धनंजयमपश्याम चतुर्दन्तमिव द्विपम् ॥
English Translation
Possessed of the splendour of Indra himself, while penetrating into our army we have seen Dhananjaya look like an elephant with four tusks.
विक्षोभयन्तं सेनां ते त्रासयन्तं च पार्थिवान् । धनंजयमपश्याम नलिनीमिव कुञ्जरम् ॥
English Translation
While agitating your army and terrorizing the kings we have seen Dhananjaya resemble an elephant agitating a lake full of lotuses.
त्रासयन्तं तथा योधान्धनुर्घोषेण पाण्डवम् । भूय एनमपश्याम सिंहं मृगगणा इव ॥
English Translation
While terrifying all the warriors with the twang of his bow, we have again seen the son of Pandu resemble a lion striking terror to sinaller aniinals.
सर्वलोकमहेष्वासौ वृषभौ सर्वधन्विनाम् । आमुक्तकवचौ कृष्णौ लोकमध्ये विरेजतुः ॥
English Translation
Those two foremost of bowinen in all the worlds, viz., the two Krishnas clad in mail, are looking highly beautiful.
अद्य सप्तदशाहानि वर्तमानस्य भारत । संग्रामस्यातिघोरस्य वध्यतां चाभितो युधि ॥
English Translation
Today is the seventeenth day of this dreadful battle, O Bharata, of those that are being killed in the midst of this fight.
वायुनेव विधूतानि तवानीकानि सर्वशः । शरदम्भोदजालानि व्यशीर्यन्त समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
The diverse detachments of your army are routed and dispersed like autumnal clouds scattered by the wind.
तां नावमिव पर्यस्तां भ्रान्तवातां महार्णवे । तव सेनां महाराज सव्यसाची व्यकम्पयत् ॥
English Translation
Savyasachin, O monarch, made your army tremble and reel like a boat exposed to danger by a storm on the bosom of the ocean.
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