Arjuna Destroys the Samshaptakas

Verse 1 (7.19.1)

दृष्ट्वा तु सन्निवृत्तांस्तान्संशप्तकगणान्पुनः । वासुदेवं महात्मानमर्जुनः समभाषत ॥

dṛṣṭvā tu sannivṛttāṃstānsaṃśaptakagaṇānpunaḥ | vāsudevaṃ mahātmānamarjunaḥ samabhāṣata

Seeing the Samshaptaka bands turn back again, Arjuna spoke to the great-souled Vasudeva.

Note on the text: Corrected दृष्टा → दृष्ट्वा (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads dṛṣṭvā). The page's speaker heading reads सञ्च उवाच (a typo for सञ्जय उवाच); the speaker is given as सञ्जय.

Verse 2 (7.19.2)

चोदयाश्वान्हृषीकेश संशप्तकगणान्प्रति । नैते हास्यन्ति सङ्ग्रामं जीवन्त इति मे मतिः ॥

codayāśvānhṛṣīkeśa saṃśaptakagaṇānprati | naite hāsyanti saṅgrāmaṃ jīvanta iti me matiḥ

"Drive the horses on, Hrishikesha, toward the bands of Samshaptakas. My belief is that they will not give up the battle while they live."

Note on the text: Arjuna's speech to Krishna; the page prints it under the single heading at verse 1 (misspelt सञ्च), and re-heads सञ्जय only at verse 4, so verses 2–3 are given to Arjuna.

Verse 3 (7.19.3)

पश्य मेऽस्त्रबलं घोरं बाह्वोरिष्वसनस्य च । अद्यैतान्पातयिष्यामि क्रुद्धो रुद्रः पशूनिव ॥

paśya me'strabalaṃ ghoraṃ bāhvoriṣvasanasya ca | adyaitānpātayiṣyāmi kruddho rudraḥ paśūniva

"See the terrible power of my weapons, and of my arms and my bow. Today I shall bring these men down, as an enraged Rudra brings down beasts."

Note on the text: Arjuna's speech (see verse 2).

Verse 4 (7.19.4)

ततः कृष्णः स्मितं कृत्वा प्रतिनन्द्य शिवेन तम् । प्रावेशयत दुर्धर्षो यत्रयत्रैच्छदर्जुनः ॥

tataḥ kṛṣṇaḥ smitaṃ kṛtvā pratinandya śivena tam | prāveśayata durdharṣo yatrayatraicchadarjunaḥ

Then Krishna smiled, greeted him with auspicious words, and the unassailable one drove the chariot into the enemy host wherever Arjuna wished.

Note on the text: प्रतिनन्द्य kept as a recension variant (critical edition: pariṇandya). The critical edition's star passage 7.18.4b*0138_01 is not on the page.

Verse 5 (7.19.5)

स रथो भ्राजतेऽत्यर्थमुह्यमानो रणे तदा । उह्यमानमिवाकाशे विमानं पाण्डुरैर्हयैः ॥

sa ratho bhrājate'tyarthamuhyamāno raṇe tadā | uhyamānamivākāśe vimānaṃ pāṇḍurairhayaiḥ

That chariot, borne along by its white horses in the battle, shone exceedingly, like a celestial car carried through the sky.

Note on the text: स रथो भ्राजतेऽत्यर्थमुह्यमानो kept as a recension variant (critical edition: babhrāje sa ratho 'tyartham uhyamāno).

Verse 6 (7.19.6)

मण्डलानि ततश्चक्रे गतप्रत्यागतानि च । यथा शक्ररथो राजन्युद्धे देवासुरे पुरा ॥

maṇḍalāni tataścakre gatapratyāgatāni ca | yathā śakraratho rājanyuddhe devāsure purā

Then he made circles, going forward and coming back, as Indra's chariot did, O king, in the ancient war between gods and asuras.

Note on the text: Corrected चे → च (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads ca).

Verse 7 (7.19.7)

अथ नारायणाः क्रुद्धा विविधायुधपाणयः । छादयन्तः शरव्रातैः परिवव्रुर्धनञ्जयम् ॥

atha nārāyaṇāḥ kruddhā vividhāyudhapāṇayaḥ | chādayantaḥ śaravrātaiḥ parivavrurdhanañjayam

Then the Narayanas, enraged, with weapons of many kinds in their hands, covered Dhananjaya with volleys of arrows and surrounded him.

Verse 8 (7.19.8)

अदृश्यं च मुहूर्तेन चक्रुस्ते भरतर्षभ । कृष्णेन सहितं युद्धे कुन्तीपुत्रं धनञ्जयम् ॥

adṛśyaṃ ca muhūrtena cakruste bharatarṣabha | kṛṣṇena sahitaṃ yuddhe kuntīputraṃ dhanañjayam

In a moment, O best of the Bharatas, they made Arjuna, son of Kunti, together with Krishna, invisible in the battle.

Verse 9 (7.19.9)

क्रुद्धस्तु फल्गुनः सङ्ख्ये द्विगुणीकृतविक्रमः । गाण्डीवं धनुरामृज्य तूर्णं जग्राह संयुगे ॥

kruddhastu phalgunaḥ saṅkhye dviguṇīkṛtavikramaḥ | gāṇḍīvaṃ dhanurāmṛjya tūrṇaṃ jagrāha saṃyuge

Then Phalguna, enraged, his valour doubled, stroked his bow Gandiva and quickly took it up in the fight.

Note on the text: धनुरामृज्य kept as a recension variant (critical edition: upasaṃmṛjya).

Verse 10 (7.19.10)

बद्ध्वा च भ्रुकुटिं वक्त्रे क्रोधस्य प्रतिलक्षणम् । देवदत्तं महाशङ्खं पूरयामास पाण्डवः ॥

baddhvā ca bhrukuṭiṃ vaktre krodhasya pratilakṣaṇam | devadattaṃ mahāśaṅkhaṃ pūrayāmāsa pāṇḍavaḥ

Knitting his brows, the sign of anger, on his face, the Pandava filled the air with the great conch Devadatta.

Verse 11 (7.19.11)

अथास्त्रमरिसङ्घघ्नं त्वाष्ट्रमभ्यस्यदर्जुनः । ततो रूपसहस्राणि प्रादुरासन्पृथक्पृथक् ॥

athāstramarisaṅghaghnaṃ tvāṣṭramabhyasyadarjunaḥ | tato rūpasahasrāṇi prādurāsanpṛthakpṛthak

Then Arjuna invoked the Tvashtra weapon, the destroyer of hosts of foes, and thousands of forms appeared, each one separate.

Verse 12 (7.19.12)

अर्जुनप्रतिरूपैस्तैर्नानारूपैर्विमोहिताः । अन्योन्येनार्जुनं मत्वा स्वमात्मानं च जघ्निरे ॥

arjunapratirūpaistairnānārūpairvimohitāḥ | anyonyenārjunaṃ matvā svamātmānaṃ ca jaghnire

Bewildered by those many forms that looked like Arjuna, they took one another for Arjuna and struck each other and themselves.

Note on the text: अन्योन्येनार्जुनं kept as a recension variant (critical edition: ātmanaḥ pratirūpais tair … anyonyam arjunaṃ).

Verse 13 (7.19.13)

अयमर्जुनोऽयं गोविन्द इमौ पाण्डवयादवौ । इति ब्रुवाणाः संमूढा जघ्नुरन्योन्यमाहवे ॥

ayamarjuno'yaṃ govinda imau pāṇḍavayādavau | iti bruvāṇāḥ saṃmūḍhā jaghnuranyonyamāhave

"This is Arjuna! This is Govinda! Here are the Yadava and the Pandava!" So crying, utterly deluded, they struck one another in the battle.

Note on the text: इमौ पाण्डवयादवौ kept as the page reads (critical edition: imau yādavapāṇḍavau).

Verse 14 (7.19.14)

अन्योन्यं समरे जघ्नुस्तावका भरतर्षभ । मोहिताः परमास्त्रेण क्षयं जग्मुः परस्परम् ॥

anyonyaṃ samare jaghnustāvakā bharatarṣabha | mohitāḥ paramāstreṇa kṣayaṃ jagmuḥ parasparam

Your men, O best of the Bharatas, struck one another in the battle; deluded by the supreme weapon, they destroyed one another.

Note on the text: Line 1 (अन्योन्यं समरे जघ्नुः …) is the critical edition's star passage 7.18.13d*0139_01, not in the constituted text; line 2 is 7.18.14a. Removed stray wiki quote marks (` and ').

Verse 15 (7.19.15)

रुधिरोक्षितगात्रास्ते प्रेक्षमाणाः परस्परम् । अशोभन्त रणे योधाः पुष्पिता इव किंशुकाः ॥

rudhirokṣitagātrāste prekṣamāṇāḥ parasparam | aśobhanta raṇe yodhāḥ puṣpitā iva kiṃśukāḥ

Their bodies drenched with blood, looking at one another, those warriors shone in the battle like flowering kimshuka trees.

Note on the text: Line 1 (रुधिरोक्षितगात्रास्ते …) is the critical edition's star passage 7.18.14b*0140_01, not in the constituted text; line 2 is 7.18.14c. Corrected प्रेक्षमाणः → प्रेक्षमाणाः (misprint in Wikisource; the plural agrees with ते, the apparatus reads prekṣamāṇāḥ). Removed stray wiki quote marks (` and ').

Verse 16 (7.19.16)

रुधिरोत्पीडनास्ते तु रुधिरेण समुक्षिताः । चन्दनस्य रसेनेव व्यभ्राजन्त रणाजिरे ॥

rudhirotpīḍanāste tu rudhireṇa samukṣitāḥ | candanasya raseneva vyabhrājanta raṇājire

Streaming and drenched with blood, they gleamed on the battlefield as though smeared with sandal-paste.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); lines 1–2 are its star passage 7.18.14d*0141_01–02. The quotation opened by the stray wiki quote mark (`) before line 1 runs through verse 18, where the closing mark (') was removed.

Verse 17 (7.19.17)

ततः प्रसह्य बीभत्सुर्व्याक्षिपद्गाण्डिवं धनुः । न्यहनत्ताञ्छरैस्तीक्ष्णैस्तमः सूर्य इवांशुभिः ॥

tataḥ prasahya bībhatsurvyākṣipadgāṇḍivaṃ dhanuḥ | nyahanattāñcharaistīkṣṇaistamaḥ sūrya ivāṃśubhiḥ

Then Bibhatsu forcefully twanged his bow Gandiva and brought them down with sharp arrows, as the sun dispels darkness with its rays.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); it is the star passage 7.18.14d*0141_03–04 (प्रसह्य for prahasya, and a different second quarter of line 1).

Verse 18 (7.19.18)

हतावशिष्टास्ते भूयः परिवार्य धनञ्जयम् । साश्वध्वजरथं चक्रुरदृश्यं शरवृष्टिभिः ॥

hatāvaśiṣṭāste bhūyaḥ parivārya dhanañjayam | sāśvadhvajarathaṃ cakruradṛśyaṃ śaravṛṣṭibhiḥ

Those who survived the slaughter surrounded Dhananjaya again and, with showers of arrows, made him invisible along with his horses, banner and chariot.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); lines 1–2 are its star passage 7.18.14d*0141_05–06. Removed the stray wiki quote mark (') printed after शरवृष्टिभिः.

Verse 19 (7.19.19)

ततः शरसहस्राणि तैर्विमुक्तानि भस्मसात् । कृत्वा तदस्त्रं तान्वीराननयद्यमसादनम् ॥

tataḥ śarasahasrāṇi tairvimuktāni bhasmasāt | kṛtvā tadastraṃ tānvīrānanayadyamasādanam

Having reduced to ashes the thousands of arrows they had loosed, that weapon of his led those heroes to the abode of Yama.

Verse 20 (7.19.20)

अथ प्रहस्य बीभत्सुर्ललित्थान्मालवानपि । मावेल्लकांस्त्रिगर्तांश्च यौधेयांश्चार्दयच्छरैः ॥

atha prahasya bībhatsurlalitthānmālavānapi | māvellakāṃstrigartāṃśca yaudheyāṃścārdayaccharaiḥ

Then, laughing, Bibhatsu afflicted the Lalitthas, the Malavas, the Mavellakas, the Trigartas and the Yaudheyas with his arrows.

Note on the text: मावेल्लकान् kept as the page reads (critical edition: mācellakān).

Verse 21 (7.19.21)

ते हन्यमाना वीरेण क्षत्रियाः कालचोदिताः । व्यसृजञ्छरजालानि पार्थे नानाविधानि च ॥

te hanyamānā vīreṇa kṣatriyāḥ kālacoditāḥ | vyasṛjañcharajālāni pārthe nānāvidhāni ca

Struck down by the hero, those kshatriyas, driven by Time, hurled volleys of arrows of many kinds at Partha.

Note on the text: ते हन्यमाना … शरजालानि kept as a recension variant (critical edition: te vadhyamānā … śaravarṣāṇi).

Verse 22 (7.19.22)

न ध्वजो नार्जुनस्तत्र न रथो न च केशवः । प्रत्यदृश्यत घोरेण शरवर्षेण संवृतः ॥

na dhvajo nārjunastatra na ratho na ca keśavaḥ | pratyadṛśyata ghoreṇa śaravarṣeṇa saṃvṛtaḥ

Neither banner nor Arjuna, neither chariot nor Keshava, could be seen there, covered over by that terrible rain of arrows.

Note on the text: न ध्वजो नार्जुनस्तत्र kept as a recension variant (critical edition: tato naivārjunas tatra).

Verse 23 (7.19.23)

ततस्ते लब्धलक्षत्वादन्योन्यमभिचुक्रुशुः । हतौ कृष्णाविति प्रीत्या वासांस्यादुधुवुस्तदा ॥

tataste labdhalakṣatvādanyonyamabhicukruśuḥ | hatau kṛṣṇāviti prītyā vāsāṃsyādudhuvustadā

Having found their mark, they shouted to one another, and in their joy waved their garments, crying, "The two Krishnas are slain!"

Note on the text: लब्धलक्षत्वात् kept as a recension variant (critical edition: labdhalakṣyatvāt).

Verse 24 (7.19.24)

भेरीमृदङ्गशङ्खांश्च दध्मुर्वीराः सहस्रशः । सिंहनादरवांश्चोग्रांश्चक्रिरे तत्र मारिष ॥

bherīmṛdaṅgaśaṅkhāṃśca dadhmurvīrāḥ sahasraśaḥ | siṃhanādaravāṃścogrāṃścakrire tatra māriṣa

Thousands of those warriors sounded their drums and mridangas and blew their conches, and raised fierce lion-roars there, O lord.

Verse 25 (7.19.25)

ततः प्रसिष्विदे कृष्णः खिन्नश्चार्जुनमब्रवीत् । क्वासि पार्थ न पश्यामि कच्चिज्जीवसि शत्रुहन् ॥

tataḥ prasiṣvide kṛṣṇaḥ khinnaścārjunamabravīt | kvāsi pārtha na paśyāmi kaccijjīvasi śatruhan

Then Krishna, sweating and distressed, said to Arjuna: "Where are you, Partha? I cannot see you. Are you alive, slayer of foes?"

Note on the text: Line 1 is narration (Sanjaya); Krishna's words begin in line 2. न पश्यामि kept as a recension variant (critical edition: na paśye tvām).

Verse 26 (7.19.26)

तस्य तद्भाषितं श्रुत्वा त्वरमाणो धनञ्जयः । वायव्यास्त्रेण तैरस्तां शरवृष्टिमपाहरत् ॥

tasya tadbhāṣitaṃ śrutvā tvaramāṇo dhanañjayaḥ | vāyavyāstreṇa tairastāṃ śaravṛṣṭimapāharat

Hearing his words, Dhananjaya in haste dispelled with the Vayavya weapon that rain of arrows they had loosed.

Note on the text: Line 1 (तस्य तद्भाषितं श्रुत्वा त्वरमाणो धनञ्जयः) is a vulgate line; the critical edition's 7.18.22ab reads tasya taṃ mānuṣaṃ bhāvaṃ bhāvajño 'jñāya pāṇḍavaḥ. Line 2 is 7.18.22cd.

Verse 27 (7.19.27)

ततः संशप्तकव्रातान्साश्वद्विपरथायुधान् । उवाह भगवान्वायुः शुष्कपर्णचयानिव ॥

tataḥ saṃśaptakavrātānsāśvadviparathāyudhān | uvāha bhagavānvāyuḥ śuṣkaparṇacayāniva

Then the glorious Vayu carried away the bands of Samshaptakas, with their horses, elephants, chariots and weapons, as if they were heaps of dry leaves.

Note on the text: Corrected शुष्कपर्मचयानिव → शुष्कपर्णचयानिव (misprint in Wikisource; र्म for र्ण, the critical edition reads śuṣkaparṇacayān iva).

Verse 28 (7.19.28)

उह्यमानास्तु ते राजन्बह्वशोभन्त वायुना । प्रडीनाः पक्षिणः काले वृक्षेभ्य इव मारिष ॥

uhyamānāstu te rājanbahvaśobhanta vāyunā | praḍīnāḥ pakṣiṇaḥ kāle vṛkṣebhya iva māriṣa

Borne aloft by the wind, O king, they made a striking sight, O lord, like birds flying up from trees in season.

Verse 29 (7.19.29)

तांस्तथा व्याकुलीकृत्य त्वरमाणो धनञ्जयः । जघान निशितैर्बाणैः सहस्राणि शतानि च ॥

tāṃstathā vyākulīkṛtya tvaramāṇo dhanañjayaḥ | jaghāna niśitairbāṇaiḥ sahasrāṇi śatāni ca

Having thus thrown them into confusion, Dhananjaya in haste killed them with sharp arrows, by the thousand and by the hundred.

Verse 30 (7.19.30)

शिरांसि भल्लैरहरद्बाहूनपि च सायुधान् । हस्तिहस्तोपमांश्चोरूञ्शरैरुर्व्यामपातयत् ॥

śirāṃsi bhallairaharadbāhūnapi ca sāyudhān | hastihastopamāṃścorūñśarairurvyāmapātayat

With broad-headed arrows he took off heads, and arms together with their weapons, and thighs like elephants' trunks, and felled them to the ground with his arrows.

Verse 31 (7.19.31)

पृष्ठच्छिन्नान्विचरणान्विमस्तकदृगङ्गुलीन् । नानाङ्गावयवैर्हीनांश्चकारारीन्धनञ्जयः ॥

pṛṣṭhacchinnānvicaraṇānvimastakadṛgaṅgulīn | nānāṅgāvayavairhīnāṃścakārārīndhanañjayaḥ

Dhananjaya left his foes with their backs cut open, without legs, without heads, eyes or fingers, bereft of limbs and members of every kind.

Note on the text: विमस्तकदृगङ्गुलीन् kept as a recension variant (critical edition: vimastiṣkekṣaṇāṅgulīn).

Verse 32 (7.19.32)

गन्धर्वनगराकारान्विधिवत्कल्पितान्रथान् । शरैर्विशकलीकुर्वंश्चक्रे व्यश्वरथद्विपान् ॥

gandharvanagarākārānvidhivatkalpitānrathān | śarairviśakalīkurvaṃścakre vyaśvarathadvipān

He shattered with his arrows the well-fitted chariots, which looked like cities of the Gandharvas, and left horses, chariots and elephants ruined.

Verse 33 (7.19.33)

मुण्डतालवनानीव तत्रतत्र चकाशिरे । छिन्ना रथध्वजव्राताः केचित्तत्र क्वचित्क्वचित् ॥

muṇḍatālavanānīva tatratatra cakāśire | chinnā rathadhvajavrātāḥ kecittatra kvacitkvacit

Here and there shone the severed heaps of chariot-banners, some in one place and some in another, like palm groves with their crowns lopped off.

Note on the text: छिन्ना रथध्वजव्राताः केचित्तत्र क्वचित्क्वचित् kept as a recension variant (critical edition: chinnadhvajarathavrātāḥ ke cit ke cit kva cit kva cit).

Verse 34 (7.19.34)

सोत्तरायुधिनो नागाः सपताकाङ्कुशध्वजाः । पेतुः शक्राशनिहता द्रुमवन्त इवाचलाः ॥

sottarāyudhino nāgāḥ sapatākāṅkuśadhvajāḥ | petuḥ śakrāśanihatā drumavanta ivācalāḥ

Elephants with warriors seated on top, with their flags, goads and banners, fell like wooded mountains struck by Indra's thunderbolt.

Note on the text: सपताकाङ्कुशध्वजाः kept as a recension variant (critical edition: sapatākāṅkuśāyudhāḥ). The page's footnote glosses सोत्तरायुधिनः as "with fighters seated above".

Verse 35 (7.19.35)

चामरापीडकवचाः स्रस्तान्त्रनयनास्तथा । सारोहास्तुरगाः पेतुः पार्थबाणहताः क्षितौ ॥

cāmarāpīḍakavacāḥ srastāntranayanāstathā | sārohāsturagāḥ petuḥ pārthabāṇahatāḥ kṣitau

Horses with their riders, their chowries, crests and armour, their entrails and eyes torn out, fell to the ground struck down by Partha's arrows.

Note on the text: Corrected पार्तबाणहताः → पार्थबाणहताः (misprint in Wikisource; त for थ, the critical edition reads pārthabāṇahatāḥ). स्रस्तान्त्रनयनास्तथा kept as a recension variant (critical edition: srastāntranayanāsavaḥ).

Verse 36 (7.19.36)

विप्रविद्धासिनाराचाश्छिन्नवर्मर्ष्टिशक्तयः । पत्तयश्छिन्नवर्माणः कृपणाः शेरते हताः ॥

vipraviddhāsinārācāśchinnavarmarṣṭiśaktayaḥ | pattayaśchinnavarmāṇaḥ kṛpaṇāḥ śerate hatāḥ

The foot-soldiers, their swords and iron arrows flung aside, their armour, spears and javelins cut to pieces, their mail hacked through, lay slain in a pitiable state.

Note on the text: Corrected पत्तयश्चिन्नवर्माणः → पत्तयश्छिन्नवर्माणः (misprint in Wikisource; च for छ, the critical edition reads pattayaś chinnavarmāṇaḥ). विप्रविद्धासिनाराचाः kept as a recension variant (critical edition: vipraviddhāsinakharāḥ).

Verse 37 (7.19.37)

तैर्हतैर्हन्यमानैश्च पतद्भिः पतितैरपि । भ्रमद्भिर्निष्टनद्भिश्च क्रूरमायोधनं बभौ ॥

tairhatairhanyamānaiśca patadbhiḥ patitairapi | bhramadbhirniṣṭanadbhiśca krūramāyodhanaṃ babhau

With the slain and the being-slain, the falling and the fallen, the staggering and the groaning, the field of battle looked cruel.

Note on the text: क्रूरमायोधनं बभौ kept as a recension variant (critical edition: ghoram āyodhanaṃ babhau).

Verse 38 (7.19.38)

रजश्च महदुद्भूतं शान्तं रुधिरवृष्टिभिः । मही चाप्यभवद्दुर्गा कबन्धशतसङ्कुला ॥

rajaśca mahadudbhūtaṃ śāntaṃ rudhiravṛṣṭibhiḥ | mahī cāpyabhavaddurgā kabandhaśatasaṅkulā

A great cloud of dust had risen, but it was quelled by showers of blood; and the earth became impassable, crowded with hundreds of headless trunks.

Note on the text: The page's verse-end mark (।।) falls after its first line only, so Wikisource prints this verse as one line (5-18-38a) and its second line runs on into the next verse. Restored line 1 from the critical edition (7.18.34a: rajaś ca mahad udbhūtaṃ śāntaṃ rudhiravṛṣṭibhiḥ), which the page lacks. Corrected रजश्च चाप्यभवद्दुर्गा → मही चाप्यभवद्दुर्गा (the printed रजश्च repeats the word of the lost line and does not agree with the feminine दुर्गा; the critical edition reads mahī cāpy abhavad durgā).

Verse 39 (7.19.39)

तद्बभौ रौद्रबीभत्सं बीभत्सोर्यानमाहवे । आक्रीडमिव रुद्रस्य घ्नतः कालात्यये पशून् ॥

tadbabhau raudrabībhatsaṃ bībhatsoryānamāhave | ākrīḍamiva rudrasya ghnataḥ kālātyaye paśūn

In that battle Bibhatsu's advance looked terrible and horrifying, like the playground of Rudra as he slays the beasts at the close of time.

Note on the text: Regrouped to follow the page's own verse-end marks, which fall after the first line of each table row from 5-18-38 on: this verse is line b of row 38 (तद्बभौ …) with line a of row 39 (आक्रीडमिव …), matching the critical edition's 7.18.35ac.

Verse 40 (7.19.40)

ते वध्यमानाः पार्थेन व्याकुलाश्वरथद्विपाः । तमेवाभिमुखाः क्षीणाः शक्रस्यातिथितां गताः ॥

te vadhyamānāḥ pārthena vyākulāśvarathadvipāḥ | tamevābhimukhāḥ kṣīṇāḥ śakrasyātithitāṃ gatāḥ

Slain by Partha, with their horses, chariots and elephants in disorder, they fell, spent, facing him alone, and became the guests of Shakra.

Note on the text: Regrouped to follow the page's verse-end marks (see verse 39): line b of row 39 with line a of row 40; the critical edition's 7.18.36ac. Corrected कते → ते (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads te vadhyamānāḥ).

Verse 41 (7.19.41)

सा भूमिर्भरतश्रेष्ठ निहतैस्तैर्महारथैः । आस्तीर्णा सम्बभौ सर्वा प्रेतीभूतैः समन्ततः ॥

sā bhūmirbharataśreṣṭha nihataistairmahārathaiḥ | āstīrṇā sambabhau sarvā pretībhūtaiḥ samantataḥ

O best of the Bharatas, that whole ground lay covered on every side with those great warriors, slain and turned to corpses.

Note on the text: Regrouped to follow the page's verse-end marks (see verse 39): line b of row 40 with line a of row 41; the critical edition's 7.18.37ac. Corrected भूमीर्भरतश्रेष्ठ → भूमिर्भरतश्रेष्ठ (misprint in Wikisource; long ई, the critical edition reads bhūmir bharataśreṣṭha).

Verse 42 (7.19.42)

एतस्मिन्नन्तरे चैव प्रमत्ते सव्यसाचिनि । व्यूढानीकस्ततो द्रोणो युधिष्ठिरमुपाद्रवत् ॥

etasminnantare caiva pramatte savyasācini | vyūḍhānīkastato droṇo yudhiṣṭhiramupādravat

Meanwhile, as Savyasachin was thus absorbed elsewhere, Drona, with his army drawn up, rushed upon Yudhishthira.

Note on the text: Regrouped to follow the page's verse-end marks (see verse 39): line b of row 41 with line a of row 42; the critical edition's 7.18.38ac.

Verse 43 (7.19.43)

तं प्रत्यगृह्णंस्त्वरिता व्यूढानीकाः प्रहारिणः । युधिष्ठिरं परीप्सन्तस्तदासीत्तुमुलं महत् ॥

taṃ pratyagṛhṇaṃstvaritā vyūḍhānīkāḥ prahāriṇaḥ | yudhiṣṭhiraṃ parīpsantastadāsīttumulaṃ mahat

The fighters of Yudhishthira's array, in haste, met him, eager to protect Yudhishthira; and a great tumult arose.

Note on the text: Regrouped to follow the page's verse-end marks (see verse 39): line b of row 42 with the single line of row 43 (5-18-43a); the critical edition's 7.18.39ac.