Arjuna Routs the Trigartas; Satyaki and Bhishma Trade Spears

Verse 1 (6.104.1)

अर्जुनस्तान्नरव्याघ्रः सुशर्मानुचरान्नृपान् । अनयत्प्रेतराजस्य सदनं सायकैः शितैः ॥

arjunastānnaravyāghraḥ suśarmānucarānnṛpān | anayatpretarājasya sadanaṃ sāyakaiḥ śitaiḥ

Arjuna, tiger among men, sent the kings who followed Susharman to the abode of the king of the dead with his sharp arrows.

Note on the text: Adhyaya note: checked against the raw Wikisource page (a table, one row per verse, 6-104-1 to 6-104-38, headed सञ्जय उवाच, ending with its colophon naming this the 104th adhyaya, on the ninth day of battle). Page and input agree on all 38 verses; together they correspond to the critical edition 6.100.1–37. The page prints the critical edition's three-line 6.100.26 as two verses (26, one line; 27, two lines), and its verse 19 carries an extra line. The critical edition's star passages *0399 and *0400 are not on the page and were not added. अर्जुनस्तान्नरव्याघ्रः सुशर्मानुचरान् and सदनं (CE arjunas tu naravyāghra suśarmapramukhān, bhavanaṃ) kept as variants.

Verse 2 (6.104.2)

सुशर्मापि ततो बाणैः पार्थं विव्याध संयुगे । वासुदेवं च सप्तत्या पार्थं च नवभिः पुनः ॥

suśarmāpi tato bāṇaiḥ pārthaṃ vivyādha saṃyuge | vāsudevaṃ ca saptatyā pārthaṃ ca navabhiḥ punaḥ

Susharman in turn pierced Partha with arrows in the battle — Vasudeva with seventy, and Partha again with nine.

Verse 3 (6.104.3)

तं निवार्य शरौघेण शक्रसूनुर्महारथः । सुशर्मणो रणे योधान्प्राहिणोद्यमसादनम् ॥

taṃ nivārya śaraugheṇa śakrasūnurmahārathaḥ | suśarmaṇo raṇe yodhānprāhiṇodyamasādanam

Holding him off with a flood of arrows, the great chariot-warrior, son of Shakra, sent Susharman's warriors to Yama's abode in the battle.

Note on the text: Corrected सक्रुसूनुः → शक्रसूनुः (misprint in Wikisource; 'son of Shakra', i.e. Arjuna; the critical edition reads śakrasūnur). तं निवार्य (CE tān nivārya) kept as a variant.

Verse 4 (6.104.4)

ते वध्यमानाः पार्थेन कालेनेव युगक्षये । व्यद्रवन्त रणे राजन्भये जाते महारथाः ॥

te vadhyamānāḥ pārthena kāleneva yugakṣaye | vyadravanta raṇe rājanbhaye jāte mahārathāḥ

Slaughtered by Partha as if by Time at the end of an age, the great chariot-warriors fled from the field, O king, as terror seized them.

Verse 5 (6.104.5)

उत्सृज्य तुरगान्केचिद्रथान्केचिच्च मारिष । गजानन्ये समुत्सृज्य प्राद्रवन्त दिशो दश ॥

utsṛjya turagānkecidrathānkecicca māriṣa | gajānanye samutsṛjya prādravanta diśo daśa

Some abandoned their horses, some their chariots, sir; others left their elephants and ran in all ten directions.

Verse 6 (6.104.6)

अपरे तु तदादाय वाजिनागरथान्रणे । त्वरया परया युक्ताः प्राद्रवन्त विशांपते ॥

apare tu tadādāya vājināgarathānraṇe | tvarayā parayā yuktāḥ prādravanta viśāṃpate

Others, taking their horses, elephants and chariots with them, fled from the field in the utmost haste, lord of the people.

Note on the text: Differs from the critical edition in both lines' wording (तदादाय वाजिनागरथान्रणे for tudyamānās tu vājināgarathā raṇāt); kept as a variant. The critical edition's star passage *0399 after this verse is not on the page.

Verse 7 (6.104.7)

पादाताश्चापि शस्त्राणि समुत्सृज्य महारणे । निरपेक्षा व्यधावन्त तेनतेन स्म भारत ॥

pādātāścāpi śastrāṇi samutsṛjya mahāraṇe | nirapekṣā vyadhāvanta tenatena sma bhārata

The foot-soldiers too threw down their weapons in the great battle and ran heedlessly this way and that, O Bharata.

Verse 8 (6.104.8)

वार्यमाणाः सुबहुशस्त्रैगर्तेन सुशर्मणा । तथान्यैः पार्थिवश्रेष्ठैर्न व्यतिष्ठन्त संयुगे ॥

vāryamāṇāḥ subahuśastraigartena suśarmaṇā | tathānyaiḥ pārthivaśreṣṭhairna vyatiṣṭhanta saṃyuge

Though Susharman of Trigarta and other foremost kings tried again and again to hold them back, they would not stand their ground.

Note on the text: सुबहुशस्त्रैगर्तेन is सुबहुशः त्रैगर्तेन (CE sma bahuśas traigartena) and is left as printed. The critical edition's star passage *0400 after this verse is not on the page.

Verse 9 (6.104.9)

तद्बलं प्रद्रुतं दृष्ट्वा पुत्रो दुर्योधनस्तव । पुरस्कृत्य रणे भीष्मं सर्वसैन्यपुरस्कृतः ॥

tadbalaṃ pradrutaṃ dṛṣṭvā putro duryodhanastava | puraskṛtya raṇe bhīṣmaṃ sarvasainyapuraskṛtaḥ

Seeing that army in flight, your son Duryodhana put Bhishma at the front in the battle and, with the whole army before him,

Note on the text: सर्वसैन्यपुरस्कृतः (CE puraskṛtam) kept as a variant.

Verse 10 (6.104.10)

सर्वोद्योगेन महता धनञ्जयमुपाद्रवत् । त्रिगर्ताधिपतेरर्थे जीवितस्य विशांपते ॥

sarvodyogena mahatā dhanañjayamupādravat | trigartādhipaterarthe jīvitasya viśāṃpate

rushed upon Dhananjaya with a great all-out effort, lord of the people, to save the life of the lord of Trigarta.

Verse 11 (6.104.11)

स एकः समरे तस्थौ किरन्बहुविधाञ्शरान् । भ्रातृभिः सहितः सर्वैः शेषा हि प्रद्रुता नराः ॥

sa ekaḥ samare tasthau kiranbahuvidhāñśarān | bhrātṛbhiḥ sahitaḥ sarvaiḥ śeṣā hi pradrutā narāḥ

He alone, with all his brothers, held his ground in the battle, scattering arrows of many kinds; the rest of the men had fled.

Note on the text: शेषा हि प्रद्रुता (CE śeṣā vipradrutā) kept as a variant.

Verse 12 (6.104.12)

तथैव पाण्डवा राजन्सर्वोद्योगेन दंशिताः । प्रययुः फल्गुनार्थाय यत्र भीष्मो व्यतिष्ठत ॥

tathaiva pāṇḍavā rājansarvodyogena daṃśitāḥ | prayayuḥ phalgunārthāya yatra bhīṣmo vyatiṣṭhata

In the same way the Pandavas, O king, armoured and putting forth all their effort, went for Phalguna's sake to where Bhishma stood.

Note on the text: व्यतिष्ठत (CE vyavasthitaḥ) kept as a variant.

Verse 13 (6.104.13)

ज्ञायमाना रणे वीर्यं घोरं गाण्डीवधन्वनः । हाहाकारकृतोत्साहा भीष्मं जग्मुः समन्ततः ॥

jñāyamānā raṇe vīryaṃ ghoraṃ gāṇḍīvadhanvanaḥ | hāhākārakṛtotsāhā bhīṣmaṃ jagmuḥ samantataḥ

Knowing the terrible might of the wielder of the Gandiva in battle, they went at Bhishma from every side, their ardour roused by shouts and cries.

Note on the text: ज्ञायमाना ... वीर्यं (CE jānanto 'pi ... śauryaṃ) kept as a variant.

Verse 14 (6.104.14)

ततस्तालध्वजः शूरः पाण्डवानां वरूथिनीम् । छादयामास समरे शरैः सन्नतपर्वभिः ॥

tatastāladhvajaḥ śūraḥ pāṇḍavānāṃ varūthinīm | chādayāmāsa samare śaraiḥ sannataparvabhiḥ

Then the hero with the palm-tree banner covered the Pandava host in battle with straight-jointed arrows.

Note on the text: वरूथिनीम् (CE anīkinīm) kept as a variant.

Verse 15 (6.104.15)

एकीभूतास्ततः सर्वे कुरवः सह पाण्डवैः । अयुध्यन्त महाराज मध्यं प्राप्ते दिवाकरे ॥

ekībhūtāstataḥ sarve kuravaḥ saha pāṇḍavaiḥ | ayudhyanta mahārāja madhyaṃ prāpte divākare

Then all the Kurus and the Pandavas, joined in one mass, fought on, great king, when the sun had reached the middle of the sky.

Verse 16 (6.104.16)

सात्यकिः कृतवर्माणं विद्ध्वा पञ्चभिराशुगैः । अतिष्ठदाहवे शूरः किरन्बाणान्सहस्रशः ॥

sātyakiḥ kṛtavarmāṇaṃ viddhvā pañcabhirāśugaiḥ | atiṣṭhadāhave śūraḥ kiranbāṇānsahasraśaḥ

Satyaki pierced Kritavarman with five swift arrows and stood firm in the fight, the hero, scattering arrows by thousands.

Note on the text: आशुगैः (CE āyasaiḥ) kept as a variant.

Verse 17 (6.104.17)

तथैव द्रुपदो राजा द्रोणं विद्ध्वा शितैः शरैः । पुनर्विव्याध सप्तत्या सारथिं चास्य पञ्चभिः ॥

tathaiva drupado rājā droṇaṃ viddhvā śitaiḥ śaraiḥ | punarvivyādha saptatyā sārathiṃ cāsya pañcabhiḥ

So too King Drupada pierced Drona with sharp arrows, then pierced him again with seventy, and his charioteer with five.

Note on the text: पञ्चभिः (CE saptabhiḥ) kept as a variant.

Verse 18 (6.104.18)

भीमसेनस्तु राजानं बाह्लीकं प्रपितामहम् । विद्ध्वा नदन्महानादं शार्दूल इव कानने ॥

bhīmasenastu rājānaṃ bāhlīkaṃ prapitāmaham | viddhvā nadanmahānādaṃ śārdūla iva kānane

Bhimasena pierced King Bahlika, his great-grandsire, and roared a great roar like a tiger in the forest.

Verse 19 (6.104.19)

आर्जुनिश्चित्रसेनेन विद्धो बहुभिराशुगैः । अतिष्ठदाहवे शूरः किरन्बाणान्सहस्रशः । चित्रसेनं त्रिभिर्बाणैर्विव्याध समरे भृशम् ॥

ārjuniścitrasenena viddho bahubhirāśugaiḥ | atiṣṭhadāhave śūraḥ kiranbāṇānsahasraśaḥ | citrasenaṃ tribhirbāṇairvivyādha samare bhṛśam

Arjuna's son, pierced by Chitrasena with many swift arrows, stood firm in the fight, the hero, scattering arrows by thousands, and pierced Chitrasena hard in the battle with three arrows.

Note on the text: Corrected बहुभिरशुगैः → बहुभिराशुगैः (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped ा, 'with swift arrows'; the critical edition reads bahubhir āśugaiḥ). Lines 1 and 3 are the critical edition's 6.100.19ab and cd (समरे for hṛdaye); line 2, अतिष्ठदाहवे शूरः किरन्बाणान्सहस्रशः, repeats line 2 of verse 16 and is not in the critical edition here, but the page prints it as 19b, so it is kept. The automatic alignment missed this verse.

Verse 20 (6.104.20)

समागतौ तौ तु रणे महामात्रौ व्यरोचताम् । यथा दिवि महाघोरौ राजन्बुधशनैश्चरौ ॥

samāgatau tau tu raṇe mahāmātrau vyarocatām | yathā divi mahāghorau rājanbudhaśanaiścarau

Met in battle, those two eminent warriors shone like the two dread planets Mercury and Saturn in the sky, O king.

Verse 21 (6.104.21)

तस्याश्वांश्चतुरो हत्वा सूतं च नवभिः शरैः । ननाद बलवान्नादं सौभद्रः परवीरहा ॥

tasyāśvāṃścaturo hatvā sūtaṃ ca navabhiḥ śaraiḥ | nanāda balavānnādaṃ saubhadraḥ paravīrahā

Killing his four horses, and his driver with nine arrows, Subhadra's mighty son, slayer of enemy heroes, roared aloud.

Verse 22 (6.104.22)

हताश्वात्तु रथात्तूर्णं सोऽवप्लुत्य महारथः । आरुरोह रथं तूर्णं दुर्मुखस्य विशांपते ॥

hatāśvāttu rathāttūrṇaṃ so'vaplutya mahārathaḥ | āruroha rathaṃ tūrṇaṃ durmukhasya viśāṃpate

The great chariot-warrior leapt quickly down from the chariot whose horses were slain and swiftly mounted Durmukha's chariot, lord of the people.

Verse 23 (6.104.23)

द्रोणश्च द्रुपदं भित्त्वा शरैः सन्नतपर्वभिः । सारथिं चास्य विव्याध त्वरमाणः पराक्रमी ॥

droṇaśca drupadaṃ bhittvā śaraiḥ sannataparvabhiḥ | sārathiṃ cāsya vivyādha tvaramāṇaḥ parākramī

Drona pierced Drupada with straight-jointed arrows, and, quick and valiant, pierced his charioteer as well.

Note on the text: भित्त्वा (CE viddhvā) kept as a variant.

Verse 24 (6.104.24)

पीड्यमानस्ततो राजा द्रुपदो वाहिनीमुखे । अपायाज्जवनैरश्वैः पूर्ववैरमनुस्मरन् ॥

pīḍyamānastato rājā drupado vāhinīmukhe | apāyājjavanairaśvaiḥ pūrvavairamanusmaran

Hard pressed at the head of the army, King Drupada withdrew on his swift horses, remembering the old enmity.

Verse 25 (6.104.25)

भीमसेनस्तु राजानं मुहूर्तादिव बाह्लिकम् । व्यश्वसूतरथं चक्रे सर्वसैन्यस्य पश्यतः ॥

bhīmasenastu rājānaṃ muhūrtādiva bāhlikam | vyaśvasūtarathaṃ cakre sarvasainyasya paśyataḥ

In what seemed a moment Bhimasena left King Bahlika without horses, driver or chariot, in the sight of the whole army.

Verse 26 (6.104.26)

ससंभ्रमो महाराज संशयं परमं गतः ॥

sasaṃbhramo mahārāja saṃśayaṃ paramaṃ gataḥ

Shaken, great king, and in the gravest danger,

Note on the text: This single line is the first line (ab) of the critical edition's three-line 6.100.26; the page closes it with a verse-end mark and prints the other two lines as its verse 27, so the page's division is kept. The automatic alignment missed it.

Verse 27 (6.104.27)

अवप्लुत्य ततो वाहाद्बाह्लीकः पुरुषोत्तमः । आरुरोह रथं तूर्णं लक्ष्मणस्य महारणे ॥

avaplutya tato vāhādbāhlīkaḥ puruṣottamaḥ | āruroha rathaṃ tūrṇaṃ lakṣmaṇasya mahāraṇe

Bahlika, best of men, leapt down from his vehicle and quickly mounted Lakshmana's chariot in the great battle.

Note on the text: Corrected आरुरह → आरुरोह (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped vowel sign in the perfect of रुह्; the critical edition reads āruroha). These lines are the critical edition's 6.100.26cd–ef (महारणे for mahārathaḥ); see verse 26.

Verse 28 (6.104.28)

सात्यकिः कृतवर्माणं वारयित्वा महारणे । शरैर्बहुविधै राजन्नाससाद पितामहम् ॥

sātyakiḥ kṛtavarmāṇaṃ vārayitvā mahāraṇe | śarairbahuvidhai rājannāsasāda pitāmaham

Satyaki, having held off Kritavarman in the great battle, came at the grandsire, O king, with arrows of many kinds.

Note on the text: महारणे (CE mahārathaḥ) kept as a variant.

Verse 29 (6.104.29)

स विद्ध्वा भारतं षष्ट्या निशितै रोमवाहिभिः । नृत्यन्निव रथोपस्थे विधुन्वानो महद्धनुः ॥

sa viddhvā bhārataṃ ṣaṣṭyā niśitai romavāhibhiḥ | nṛtyanniva rathopasthe vidhunvāno mahaddhanuḥ

Piercing the Bharata with sixty keen arrows fledged with feathers, he seemed to dance on the floor of his chariot, shaking his great bow.

Note on the text: नृत्यन्निव (CE nanarteva) kept as a variant.

Verse 30 (6.104.30)

तस्यायसीं महाशक्तिं चिक्षेपाथ पितामहः । हेमचित्रां महावेगां नागकन्योपमां शुभाम् ॥

tasyāyasīṃ mahāśaktiṃ cikṣepātha pitāmahaḥ | hemacitrāṃ mahāvegāṃ nāgakanyopamāṃ śubhām

At him the grandsire hurled a great iron spear, adorned with gold, very swift and lovely, like a serpent maiden.

Verse 31 (6.104.31)

तामापतन्तीं सहसा मृत्युकल्पां सुदुर्जयाम् । व्यंसयामास वार्ष्णेयो लाघवेन महायशाः ॥

tāmāpatantīṃ sahasā mṛtyukalpāṃ sudurjayām | vyaṃsayāmāsa vārṣṇeyo lāghavena mahāyaśāḥ

As it flew suddenly at him, like death itself and hard to withstand, the famed Varshneya dodged it with his nimbleness.

Note on the text: सुदुर्जयाम् and व्यंसयामास (CE sutejanām, dhvaṃsayām āsa) kept as variants.

Verse 32 (6.104.32)

अनासाद्य तु वार्ष्णेयं शक्तिः परमदारुणा । न्यपतद्धरणीपृष्ठे महोल्केव महाप्रभा ॥

anāsādya tu vārṣṇeyaṃ śaktiḥ paramadāruṇā | nyapataddharaṇīpṛṣṭhe maholkeva mahāprabhā

Failing to reach Varshneya, that deadly spear fell on the face of the earth like a great blazing meteor.

Note on the text: महाप्रभा (CE gataprabhā) kept as a variant.

Verse 33 (6.104.33)

वार्ष्णेयस्तु ततो राजन्स्वां शक्तिं कनकप्रभाम् । वेगवद्गृह्य चिक्षेप पितामहरथं प्रति ॥

vārṣṇeyastu tato rājansvāṃ śaktiṃ kanakaprabhām | vegavadgṛhya cikṣepa pitāmaharathaṃ prati

Then Varshneya, O king, seized his own gold-bright spear and hurled it with force at the grandsire's chariot.

Note on the text: कनकप्रभाम् (CE ghoradarśanām) kept as a variant.

Verse 34 (6.104.34)

वार्ष्णेयभुजवेगेन प्रणुन्ना सा महाहवे । अभिदुद्राव वेगेन कालरात्रिर्यथा नरम् ॥

vārṣṇeyabhujavegena praṇunnā sā mahāhave | abhidudrāva vegena kālarātriryathā naram

Driven by the force of Varshneya's arm, it sped toward him in the great battle, as the night of doom rushes upon a man.

Verse 35 (6.104.35)

तामापतन्तीं सहसा द्विधा चिच्छेद भारतः । क्षुरप्राभ्यां सुतीक्ष्णाभ्यां सा व्यशीर्यत मेदिनीम् ॥

tāmāpatantīṃ sahasā dvidhā ciccheda bhārataḥ | kṣuraprābhyāṃ sutīkṣṇābhyāṃ sā vyaśīryata medinīm

As it came at him suddenly, the Bharata cut it in two with two very sharp razor-headed arrows, and it fell shattered to the earth.

Note on the text: Spaced सुतीक्ष्णाभ्यांसा → सुतीक्ष्णाभ्यां सा (two words run together on the page). Line 2 ends differently from the critical edition (सा व्यशीर्यत मेदिनीम् for sānvakīryata bhūtale; the page's gloss supplies प्राप्य, 'reaching the earth'), and भारतः (CE bhārata); kept as variants.

Verse 36 (6.104.36)

छित्त्वा शक्तिं तु गाङ्गेयः सात्यकिं नवभिः शरैः । आजघानोरसि क्रुद्धः प्रहसञ्छत्रुकर्शनः ॥

chittvā śaktiṃ tu gāṅgeyaḥ sātyakiṃ navabhiḥ śaraiḥ | ājaghānorasi kruddhaḥ prahasañchatrukarśanaḥ

Having cut down the spear, Ganga's son, scourge of his foes, angered and laughing, struck Satyaki in the chest with nine arrows.

Note on the text: Corrected गाङ्गयः → गाङ्गेयः (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped vowel sign, 'son of Ganga'; the critical edition reads gāṅgeyaḥ).

Verse 37 (6.104.37)

ततः सरथनागाश्वाः पाण्डवाः पाण्डुपूर्वज । परिवब्रू रणे भीष्मं माधवत्राणकारणात् ॥

tataḥ sarathanāgāśvāḥ pāṇḍavāḥ pāṇḍupūrvaja | parivabrū raṇe bhīṣmaṃ mādhavatrāṇakāraṇāt

Then the Pandavas, with chariots, elephants and horses, surrounded Bhishma in battle, elder brother of Pandu, to rescue Madhava.

Verse 38 (6.104.38)

ततः प्रववृते युद्धं तुमुलं रोमहर्षणम् । पाण्डवानां कुरूणां च समरे विजयैषिणाम् ॥

tataḥ pravavṛte yuddhaṃ tumulaṃ romaharṣaṇam | pāṇḍavānāṃ kurūṇāṃ ca samare vijayaiṣiṇām

Then a tumultuous, hair-raising battle began between the Pandavas and the Kurus, each side eager for victory.