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Mahābhārata • Parva 9 (Śalyaparva) • Adhyāya 8

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 8

शल्यपर्व • अध्यायः 8

Śalyaparva Adhyāya 8 of the classical Mahābhārata with 47 verses.

Total: 47 Verses • Citations: MBh 9.8.1–47 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
ततः प्रववृते युद्धं कुरूणां भयवर्धनम् । सृञ्जयैः सह राजेन्द्र घोरं देवासुरोपमम् ॥
English Translation
Sanjaya said Then took place the battle between the Kurus and the Srinjayas, O king, that was as fierce and awful as that between the celestials and the Asuras.
नरा रथा गजौघाश्च सादिनश्च सहस्रशः । वाजिनश्च पराक्रान्ताः समाजग्मुः परस्परम् ॥
English Translation
Men and cars and elephants and elephantwarriors and horsemen by thousands and horses, all very powerful, encountered one another.
नागानां भीमरूपाणां द्रवतां निस्वनो महान् । अश्रूयत यथा काले जलदानां नभस्तले ॥
English Translation
The loud noise of the rushing of dreadful elephants was then heard there, resembling the roars of the clouds in the sky in the rains.
नागैरभ्याहताः केचित्सरथा रथिनोऽपतन् । व्यद्रवन्त रणे वीरा द्राव्यमाणा मदोत्कटैः ॥
English Translation
Some car-warriors, struck by elephants, were deprived of their cars. Dispersed by those infuriate animals, other brave heroes ran away.
हयौघान्पादरक्षांश्च रथिनस्तत्र शिक्षिताः । शरैः संप्रेषयामासुः परलोकाय भारत ॥
English Translation
Well-trained car-warriors, O Bharata, with their arrows, killed a number of cavalry and infantry that urged and protected the elephants.
सादिनः शिक्षिता राजन्परिवार्य महारथान् । विचरन्तो रणेऽभ्यघ्नन्प्रासशक्त्यृष्टिभिस्तथा ॥
English Translation
Well-trained horsemen, king, surrounding great car-warriors, moved about in the field, striking and slaying the latter with spears and draft and swords.
धन्विनः पुरुषाः केचित्संनिवार्य महारथान् । एकं बहव आसाद्य प्रेषयेयुर्यमक्षयम् ॥
नागं रथवरांश्चान्ये परिवार्य महारथाः । सोत्तरायुधिनं जघ्नुर्द्रवमाणा महारवम् ॥
तथा च रथिनं क्रुद्धं विकिरन्तं शरान्बहून् । नागा जघ्नुर्महाराज परिवार्य समन्ततः ॥
English Translation
Similarly, O king, elephants, encircling individual car-warriors worked up with rage and shooting arrows, killed them.
नागो नागमभिद्रुत्य रथी च रथिनं रणे । शक्तितोमरनाराचैर्निजघ्नुस्तत्र तत्र ह ॥
English Translation
Elephant-warrior rushing against elephantwarrior and car-warrior against car-warrior, in that battle, killed each other with darts and lances and Narachas, O Bharata.
पादातानवमृद्नन्तो रथवारणवाजिनः । रणमध्ये व्यदृश्यन्त कुर्वन्तो महदाकुलम् ॥
English Translation
Cars and elephants and horses, crushing foot-soldiers in the midst of battle, mad a confusion all over.
हयाश्च पर्यधावन्त चामरैरुपशोभिताः । हंसा हिमवतः प्रस्थे पिबन्त इव मेदिनीम् ॥
English Translation
Adorned with yak-tails, horses rushed on all sides, looking like the swans found on the plains at the foot of Himavat. In their speed they seemed as if ready to devour the very earth.
तेषां तु वाजिनां भूमिः खुरैश्चित्रा विशां पते । अशोभत यथा नारी करजक्षतविक्षता ॥
English Translation
The field, O king, marked with the hoofs of horses, looked beautiful like a beautiful woman bearing the marks of (her lover's) nails on her person.
वाजिनां खुरशब्देन रथनेमिस्वनेन च । पत्तीनां चापि शब्देन नागानां बृंहितेन च ॥
English Translation
With the sound caused by the trampling of horses, the wheels of cars, the shouts of footsoldiers, the grunts of clephants, the beating of drums and other musical instruments and the blare of conchs, the earth began to resound as if with deafening peals of thunder.
वादित्राणां च घोषेण शङ्खानां निस्वनेन च । अभवन्नादिता भूमिर्निर्घातैरिव भारत ॥
English Translation
With the sound caused by the trampling of horses, the wheels of cars, the shouts of footsoldiers, the grunts of clephants, the beating of drums and other musical instruments and the blare of conchs, the earth began to resound as if with deafening peals of thunder.
धनुषां कूजमानानां निस्त्रिंशानां च दीप्यताम् । कवचानां प्रभाभिश्च न प्राज्ञायत किंचन ॥
English Translation
On account of twanging bows and flashing swords and the glittering armour of the worriors everything was so confused there that nothing could be distinctly seen.
बहवो बाहवश्छिन्ना नागराजकरोपमाः । उद्वेष्टन्ते विवेष्टन्ते वेगं कुर्वन्ति दारुणम् ॥
English Translation
Numerous arms, chooped off from human bodies and looking like the tusks of elephants, jumped up and moved furiously about.
शिरसां च महाराज पततां वसुधातले । च्युतानामिव तालेभ्यः फलानां श्रूयते स्वनः ॥
English Translation
The sound, made, O monarch, by heads falling on the field of battle, resembled that made by the falling fruits of palmyra trees.
शिरोभिः पतितैर्भाति रुधिरार्द्रैर्वसुंधरा । तपनीयनिभैः काले नलिनैरिव भारत ॥
उद्वृत्तनयनैस्तैस्तु गतसत्त्वैः सुविक्षतैः । व्यभ्राजत महाराज पुण्डरीकैरिवावृता ॥
English Translation
Covered with those lifeless heads with upturned eyes, that were exceedingly mangled the field of battle, O king, looked resplendent as if covered with full-blown lotuses.
बाहुभिश्चन्दनादिग्धैः सकेयूरैर्महाधनैः । पतितैर्भाति राजेन्द्र मही शक्रध्वजैरिव ॥
English Translation
With the fallen arms of the warriors smeared with sandal and adorned with rich Keyuras, the Earth looked resplendent as if strewn with the rich poles set up in Indra's honours.
ऊरुभिश्च नरेन्द्राणां विनिकृत्तैर्महाहवे । हस्तिहस्तोपमैरन्यैः संवृतं तद्रणाङ्गणम् ॥
English Translation
The battle-field-was covered with the things of kings, cut off in that battle and looking like the trunk of elephants.
कबन्धशतसंकीर्णं छत्रचामरशोभितम् । सेनावनं तच्छुशुभे वनं पुष्पाचितं यथा ॥
English Translation
Covered with hundreds of headless trunks and strewn with umbrellas and yakyails, that vast army looked beautiful like a blossoming forest.
तत्र योधा महाराज विचरन्तो ह्यभीतवत् । दृश्यन्ते रुधिराक्ताङ्गाः पुष्पिता इव किंशुकाः ॥
English Translation
Then, on the field of battle, O monarch, warriors moved about fearlessly, their limbs bathed in blood and, therefore, looking like flowering Kinshukas.
मातङ्गाश्चाप्यदृश्यन्त शरतोमरपीडिताः । पतन्तस्तत्र तत्रैव छिन्नाभ्रसदृशा रणे ॥
English Translation
Elephants also, wounded with arrows and lances, dropped down here and there like broken clouds dropped from the sky.
गजानीकं महाराज वध्यमानं महात्मभिः । व्यदीर्यत दिशः सर्वा वातनुन्ना घना इव ॥
English Translation
O king, killed by great warriors, elephant divisions were dispersed in all directions like clouds scattered by the wind.
ते गजा घनसंकाशाः पेतुरुर्व्यां समन्ततः । वज्ररुग्णा इव बभुः पर्वता युगसंक्षये ॥
English Translation
Those elephants, resembling clouds dropped on the earth like mountai is clapped by a thunder, O lord, at the time of the universal dissolution.
हयानां सादिभिः सार्धं पतितानां महीतले । राशयः संप्रदृश्यन्ते गिरिमात्रास्ततस्ततः ॥
English Translation
Horses with their drivers lay in masses on the ground like so many mountains.
संजज्ञे रणभूमौ तु परलोकवहा नदी । शोणितोदा रथावर्ता ध्वजवृक्षास्थिशर्करा ॥
English Translation
A river was formed on the field o, battle, flowing towards the other world. Blood formed its waters and cars its eddies, Standards were its trees, the bones its pebbles.
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