The Death of Bhagadatta

Verse 1 (7.29.1)

तथा क्रुद्धः किमकरोद्भगदत्तस्य पाण्डवः । प्राग्ज्योतिषो वा पार्थस्य तन्मे शंस यथातथम् ॥

tathā kruddhaḥ kimakarodbhagadattasya pāṇḍavaḥ | prāgjyotiṣo vā pārthasya tanme śaṃsa yathātatham

What did the enraged Pandava do to Bhagadatta? And what did Pragjyotisha do to Partha? Tell me exactly as it happened.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-1 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Wikisource's adhyaya 29 is the critical edition's adhyaya 7.28.

Verse 2 (7.29.2)

प्राग्ज्योतिषेण संसक्तावुभौ दाशार्हपाण्डवौ । मृत्युदंष्ट्रान्तिकं प्राप्तौ सर्वभूतानि मेनिरे ॥

prāgjyotiṣeṇa saṃsaktāvubhau dāśārhapāṇḍavau | mṛtyudaṃṣṭrāntikaṃ prāptau sarvabhūtāni menire

As the Dasharha and the Pandava were locked in combat with Pragjyotisha, all beings thought that the two had come into the very jaws of death.

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Verse 3 (7.29.3)

तथा तु शरवर्षाणि पातयत्यनिशं प्रभो । गजस्कन्धान्महाराज कृष्णयोः स्यन्दनस्थयोः ॥

tathā tu śaravarṣāṇi pātayatyaniśaṃ prabho | gajaskandhānmahārāja kṛṣṇayoḥ syandanasthayoḥ

And so, O lord, from the back of his elephant he rained down showers of arrows without a pause upon the two Krishnas in their chariot, O great king.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-3 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 2 differs from the critical edition (bhagadatto gajaskandhāt kṛṣṇayoḥ syandanasthayoḥ); kept as a recension variant.

Verse 4 (7.29.4)

अथ कार्ष्णायसैर्बाणैः पूर्णकार्मुकनिःसृतैः । अविध्यद्देवकीपुत्रं हेमपुङ्खैः शिलाशितैः ॥

atha kārṣṇāyasairbāṇaiḥ pūrṇakārmukaniḥsṛtaiḥ | avidhyaddevakīputraṃ hemapuṅkhaiḥ śilāśitaiḥ

Then with iron arrows loosed from his fully drawn bow, golden-feathered and sharpened on stone, he pierced Devaki's son.

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Verse 5 (7.29.5)

अग्निस्पर्शसमास्तीक्ष्णा भगदत्तेन चोदिताः । निर्भिद्य देवकीपुत्रं क्षितिं जग्मुः सुवाससः ॥

agnisparśasamāstīkṣṇā bhagadattena coditāḥ | nirbhidya devakīputraṃ kṣitiṃ jagmuḥ suvāsasaḥ

Those sharp arrows, driven by Bhagadatta, touching like fire, went through Devaki's son and into the ground, fair-feathered.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-5 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). सुवाससः kept as a recension variant (critical edition: śarās tataḥ).

Verse 6 (7.29.6)

तस्य पार्थो धनुश्छित्त्वा परिवारं निहत्य च । लालयन्निव राजानं भगदत्तमयोधयत् ॥

tasya pārtho dhanuśchittvā parivāraṃ nihatya ca | lālayanniva rājānaṃ bhagadattamayodhayat

Partha cut his bow and struck down his attendants, and fought Bhagadatta as if playing with the king.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-6 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). परिवारं निहत्य च kept as a recension variant (critical edition: śarāvāpaṃ nihatya ca).

Verse 7 (7.29.7)

सोऽर्करश्मिनिभांस्तीक्ष्णांस्तोमरान्वै चतुर्दश । अप्रेषयत्सव्यसाची द्विधैकैकमथाच्छिनत् ॥

so'rkaraśminibhāṃstīkṣṇāṃstomarānvai caturdaśa | apreṣayatsavyasācī dvidhaikaikamathācchinat

He hurled fourteen sharp lances bright as the sun's rays; Savyasachin cut each of them in two.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-7 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). द्विधैकैकम् kept as a recension variant (critical edition: tridhaikaikam).

Verse 8 (7.29.8)

ततो नागस्य तद्वर्म व्यधमत्पाकशासनिः । शरजालेन महता तद्व्यशीर्यत भूतले ॥

tato nāgasya tadvarma vyadhamatpākaśāsaniḥ | śarajālena mahatā tadvyaśīryata bhūtale

Then the son of Pakashasana shattered the elephant's armour with a great net of arrows, and it fell in pieces to the ground.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-8 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's 7.28.8a; line 2 (शरजालेन महता तद्व्यशीर्यत भूतले) is its star passage 7.28.8c*0210_01, which the critical edition prints only in part ('**** **** tad vyaśīryata bhūtale').

Verse 9 (7.29.9)

शीर्णवर्मा स तु गजः शरैः सुभृशमर्दितः । बभौ धारानिपाताक्तो व्यभ्रः पर्वतराडिव ॥

śīrṇavarmā sa tu gajaḥ śaraiḥ subhṛśamarditaḥ | babhau dhārānipātākto vyabhraḥ parvatarāḍiva

With its armour broken and sorely wounded by arrows, the elephant shone, streaming with blood, like a great mountain washed by pouring rain after its clouds have gone.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-9 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's star passage 7.28.8c*0210_02 (शीर्णवर्मा स तु गजः …); line 2 is a recension variant of its 7.28.8c (धारानिपाताक्तो for the critical edition's śarajālena sa).

Verse 10 (7.29.10)

ततः प्राग्ज्योतिषः शक्तिं हेमदण्डामयस्मयीम् । व्यसृजद्वासुदेवाय द्विधा तामर्जुनोऽच्छिनत् ॥

tataḥ prāgjyotiṣaḥ śaktiṃ hemadaṇḍāmayasmayīm | vyasṛjadvāsudevāya dvidhā tāmarjuno'cchinat

Then Pragjyotisha hurled at Vasudeva a golden-shafted iron spear; Arjuna cut it in two.

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Verse 11 (7.29.11)

ततश्छत्रं ध्वजं चैव च्छित्त्वा राज्ञोऽर्जुनः शरैः । विव्याध दशभिस्तूर्णमुत्स्मयन्पर्वतेश्वरम् ॥

tataśchatraṃ dhvajaṃ caiva cchittvā rājño'rjunaḥ śaraiḥ | vivyādha daśabhistūrṇamutsmayanparvateśvaram

Then Arjuna cut down the king's umbrella and banner with arrows and, smiling, quickly pierced the lord of the mountains with ten.

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Verse 12 (7.29.12)

सोऽतिविद्धोऽर्जुनशरैः सुपुङ्खैः कङ्कपत्रिभिः । भगदत्तस्ततः क्रुद्धः पाण्डवस्य जनाधिपः ॥

so'tividdho'rjunaśaraiḥ supuṅkhaiḥ kaṅkapatribhiḥ | bhagadattastataḥ kruddhaḥ pāṇḍavasya janādhipaḥ

Deeply wounded by Arjuna's arrows, well-feathered with heron plumes, Bhagadatta, lord of men, then became furious with the Pandava.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-12 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). पाण्डवस्य जनाधिपः kept as a recension variant (critical edition: pāṇḍavasya mahātmanaḥ).

Verse 13 (7.29.13)

व्यसृजत्तोमरान्मूर्ध्नि श्वेताश्वस्योन्ननाद च । तैरर्जुनस्य समरे किरीटं परिवर्तितम् ॥

vyasṛjattomarānmūrdhni śvetāśvasyonnanāda ca | tairarjunasya samare kirīṭaṃ parivartitam

He hurled lances at the head of the white-horsed one and roared; with them Arjuna's diadem was turned around in the battle.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-13 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Corrected उन्नाद → उन्ननाद (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped syllable — the critical edition reads śvetāśvasyonnanāda ca).

Verse 14 (7.29.14)

परिवृत्तं किरीटं तद्यमयन्नेव पाण्डवः । सुदृष्टः क्रियतां लोक इति राजानमब्रवीत् ॥

parivṛttaṃ kirīṭaṃ tadyamayanneva pāṇḍavaḥ | sudṛṣṭaḥ kriyatāṃ loka iti rājānamabravīt

Setting the turned diadem straight, the Pandava said to the king, "Take a good look at the world!"

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Verse 15 (7.29.15)

एवमुक्तस्तु सङ्क्रुद्धः शरवर्षेण पाण्डवम् । अभ्यवर्षत्स गोविन्दं धनुरादाय भास्वरम् ॥

evamuktastu saṅkruddhaḥ śaravarṣeṇa pāṇḍavam | abhyavarṣatsa govindaṃ dhanurādāya bhāsvaram

Thus addressed, in great fury he took up his shining bow and rained a shower of arrows on the Pandava and Govinda.

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Verse 16 (7.29.16)

तस्य पार्थो धनुश्छित्त्वा तूणीरान्सन्निकृत्य च । त्वरमाणो द्विसप्तत्या सर्वमर्मस्वताडयत् ॥

tasya pārtho dhanuśchittvā tūṇīrānsannikṛtya ca | tvaramāṇo dvisaptatyā sarvamarmasvatāḍayat

Partha cut his bow and hacked his quivers to pieces, and quickly struck him in all his vital parts with seventy-two arrows.

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Verse 17 (7.29.17)

विद्धस्ततोऽतिव्यथितो वैष्णवास्त्रमुदीरयन् । अभिमन्त्र्याङ्कुशं क्रुद्धो व्यसृजत्पाण्डवोरसि ॥

viddhastato'tivyathito vaiṣṇavāstramudīrayan | abhimantryāṅkuśaṃ kruddho vyasṛjatpāṇḍavorasi

Struck, and greatly pained, he invoked the Vaishnava weapon; in anger he charged his goad with it and hurled it at the Pandava's chest.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-17 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). ततोऽतिव्यथितः kept as a recension variant (critical edition: viddhas tathāpy avyathito).

Verse 18 (7.29.18)

विसृष्टं भगदत्तेन तदस्त्रं सर्वघाति वै । उरसा प्रतिजग्राह पार्थं सञ्छाद्य केशवः ॥

visṛṣṭaṃ bhagadattena tadastraṃ sarvaghāti vai | urasā pratijagrāha pārthaṃ sañchādya keśavaḥ

That weapon, hurled by Bhagadatta, the slayer of all, Keshava received on his own chest, covering Partha.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-18 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 19 (7.29.19)

वैजयन्त्यभवन्माला तदस्त्रं केशवोरसि । पद्मकोशविचित्रा सा सर्वर्तुकुसुमोत्करा ॥

vaijayantyabhavanmālā tadastraṃ keśavorasi | padmakośavicitrā sā sarvartukusumotkarā

On Keshava's chest that weapon became a Vaijayanti garland, variegated with lotus buds and thick with flowers of every season,

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-19 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's 7.28.18a; line 2 is its star passage 7.28.18b*0213_01 (सर्वर्तुकुसुमोत्करा for sarvartukusumākulā), not in the constituted text.

Verse 20 (7.29.20)

ज्वलनार्केन्दुवर्णाभा पावकोज्ज्वलपल्लवा । तया पद्मपलाशिन्या वातकम्पितपत्रया ॥

jvalanārkenduvarṇābhā pāvakojjvalapallavā | tayā padmapalāśinyā vātakampitapatrayā

bright as fire, sun and moon, its leaves shining like flame; and with that garland of lotus petals, whose leaves trembled in the wind,

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-20 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.18b*0213_02–03. (Variants: ज्वलनार्केन्दुवर्णाभा पावकोज्ज्वलपल्लवा; तया पद्मपलाशिन्या वातकम्पितपत्रया.)

Verse 21 (7.29.21)

शुशुभेऽभ्यधिकं शौरिरतसीपुष्पसन्निभः । ततोऽर्जुनः क्लान्तमनाः केशवं प्रत्यभाषत ॥

śuśubhe'bhyadhikaṃ śauriratasīpuṣpasannibhaḥ | tato'rjunaḥ klāntamanāḥ keśavaṃ pratyabhāṣata

Shauri shone exceedingly, like a flax flower. Then Arjuna, troubled in mind, said to Keshava:

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-21 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's star passage 7.28.18b*0213_04 (शुशुभेऽभ्यधिकम् for śobhate 'bhyadhikam; not in the constituted text); line 2 is its 7.28.18c.

Verse 22 (7.29.22)

अयुध्यमानस्तुरगान्संयन्तास्मि जनार्दन । इत्युक्त्वा पुण्डरीकाक्ष प्रतिज्ञां स्वां न रक्षसि ॥

ayudhyamānasturagānsaṃyantāsmi janārdana | ityuktvā puṇḍarīkākṣa pratijñāṃ svāṃ na rakṣasi

"I am to be the charioteer of the horses without fighting, Janardana. Having said that, lotus-eyed one, you do not keep your own promise."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-22 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Verses 22–24 are Arjuna's speech to Krishna, introduced in the second line of verse 21 (no heading is printed, so the speaker is taken from the sense).

Verse 23 (7.29.23)

यद्यहं व्यसनी वा स्यामशक्तो वा निवारणे । ततस्त्वयैवं कार्यं स्यान्न तु कार्यं मयि स्थिते ॥

yadyahaṃ vyasanī vā syāmaśakto vā nivāraṇe | tatastvayaivaṃ kāryaṃ syānna tu kāryaṃ mayi sthite

"If I were in distress, or unable to ward off the blow, then you might do this; but it need not be done while I am here."

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Verse 24 (7.29.24)

सबाणः सधनुश्चाहं ससुरासुरमानुषान् । शक्तो लोकानिमाञ्जेतुं तच्चापि विदितं तव ॥

sabāṇaḥ sadhanuścāhaṃ sasurāsuramānuṣān | śakto lokānimāñjetuṃ taccāpi viditaṃ tava

"With bow and arrows I am able to conquer these worlds with their gods, asuras and men. That too is known to you."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-24 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Corrected ससुहासुरमानुषान् → ससुरासुरमानुषान् (misprint in Wikisource; ह for र — the critical edition reads sasurāsuramānavān).

Verse 25 (7.29.25)

ततोऽर्जुनं वासुदेवः प्रत्युवाचार्यवद्वचः । शृणु गुह्यमिदं पार्थ पुरावृत्तं यथाऽनघ ॥

tato'rjunaṃ vāsudevaḥ pratyuvācāryavadvacaḥ | śṛṇu guhyamidaṃ pārtha purāvṛttaṃ yathā'nagha

Then Vasudeva answered Arjuna with words of weight: "Listen, Partha, to this secret as it happened in ancient time, sinless one."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-25 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). The first line introduces Krishna's reply and the second line begins it; the verse stays with the narrator. Line 2 corresponds to the critical edition's 7.28.22c.

Verse 26 (7.29.26)

येयं भूतधरा देवी सर्वभूतधरा धरा । सकामा लोककर्तारं नारायणमुपस्थिता ॥

yeyaṃ bhūtadharā devī sarvabhūtadharā dharā | sakāmā lokakartāraṃ nārāyaṇamupasthitā

"The goddess Earth, the bearer of beings, the bearer of all creatures, approached Narayana, the maker of the worlds, with a wish in her heart."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-26 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0215_01–02. Verses 26–31 are a single passage that the page marks as an interpolation with a backtick before verse 26 and a closing quote mark after शृणु in verse 31; both marks were removed. Verses 26–30 are Krishna's speech to Arjuna, begun in verse 25 (no heading is printed, so the speaker is taken from the sense).

Verse 27 (7.29.27)

स सङ्गत्य तया सार्धं प्रीतस्तस्या वरं ददौ । सा वव्रे विष्णुसदृशं पुत्रमस्त्रं च वैष्णवम् ॥

sa saṅgatya tayā sārdhaṃ prītastasyā varaṃ dadau | sā vavre viṣṇusadṛśaṃ putramastraṃ ca vaiṣṇavam

"He united with her and, pleased, granted her a boon. She chose a son equal to Vishnu, and the Vaishnava weapon."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-27 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0215_03–04.

Verse 28 (7.29.28)

बभूव च सुतस्तस्या नरको नाम विश्रुतः । अस्त्रं च वैष्णवं तस्मै ददौ नारायणः स्वयम् ॥

babhūva ca sutastasyā narako nāma viśrutaḥ | astraṃ ca vaiṣṇavaṃ tasmai dadau nārāyaṇaḥ svayam

"And a son was born to her, the famous Naraka; and Narayana himself gave him the Vaishnava weapon."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-28 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0215_05–06.

Verse 29 (7.29.29)

तदेवं नरकस्यासीदस्त्रं सर्वाहितान्तकम् । तस्मात्प्राग्ज्योतिषं प्राप्तं सर्वशस्त्रविघातनम् ॥

tadevaṃ narakasyāsīdastraṃ sarvāhitāntakam | tasmātprāgjyotiṣaṃ prāptaṃ sarvaśastravighātanam

"So that weapon was Naraka's, the destroyer of every foe; from him it came to Pragjyotisha, a breaker of all weapons."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-29 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0216_01–02.

Verse 30 (7.29.30)

नास्यावध्योऽस्ति लोकेऽस्मिन्मदन्यः कश्चिदर्जुन । तस्मान्मया कृतं ह्येतन्मा भूत्ते बुद्धिरन्यथा ॥

nāsyāvadhyo'sti loke'sminmadanyaḥ kaścidarjuna | tasmānmayā kṛtaṃ hyetanmā bhūtte buddhiranyathā

"In this world, Arjuna, there is no one except me who cannot be killed by it. I did this for that reason; let your mind not think otherwise."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-30 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0216_03–04. Line 2 (तस्मान्मया कृतं ह्येतन्मा भूत्ते बुद्धिरन्यथा) is still Krishna's speech; the critical edition prints the heading 'saṃjaya uvāca' just before it.

Verse 31 (7.29.31)

अनुनीय तु दाशार्हः पाण्डवं त्वरितोऽब्रवीत् । जहि प्राग्ज्योतिषं क्षिप्रं वाक्यशेषं च मे शृणु ॥

anunīya tu dāśārhaḥ pāṇḍavaṃ tvarito'bravīt | jahi prāgjyotiṣaṃ kṣipraṃ vākyaśeṣaṃ ca me śṛṇu

Having appeased the Pandava, the Dasharha hastily said, "Kill Pragjyotisha at once, and hear the rest of what I have to say."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-31 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.22d*0216_05–06. The heading सञ्जय उवाच is the page's; the critical edition prints it one line earlier, before the second line of verse 30. Kept as the page prints it: the first line is narration, the second is Krishna's command. Removed the closing quote mark printed after शृणु.

Verse 32 (7.29.32)

चतुर्मूर्तिरहं शश्वल्लोकत्राणार्थमुद्यतः । आत्मानं प्रविभज्येह लोकानां हितमादधे ॥

caturmūrtirahaṃ śaśvallokatrāṇārthamudyataḥ | ātmānaṃ pravibhajyeha lokānāṃ hitamādadhe

"I am four-formed, ever intent on the protection of the worlds. Dividing myself, I work the good of the worlds here."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-32 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Verses 32–44 are Krishna's speech to Arjuna, continuing from verse 30 (the page prints no heading after Sanjaya's verse 31, so the speaker is taken from the sense).

Verse 33 (7.29.33)

एका मूर्तिस्तपश्चर्यां कुरुते मे भुवि स्थिता । अपरा पश्यति जगत्कुर्वाणं साध्वसाधुनी ॥

ekā mūrtistapaścaryāṃ kurute me bhuvi sthitā | aparā paśyati jagatkurvāṇaṃ sādhvasādhunī

"One form of mine remains on earth and practises austerities; another watches the world, seeing the good and the wicked at their work."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-33 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 34 (7.29.34)

अपरा कुरुते कर्म मानुषं लोकमाश्रिता । शेते चतुर्थीं त्वपरा निद्रां वर्षसहस्रिकीम् ॥

aparā kurute karma mānuṣaṃ lokamāśritā | śete caturthīṃ tvaparā nidrāṃ varṣasahasrikīm

"Another acts in the world of men; and the fourth lies asleep, sleeping a sleep of a thousand years."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-34 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 35 (7.29.35)

याऽसौ वर्षसहस्रान्ते मूर्तिरुत्तिष्ठते मम । वरार्हेभ्यो वराञ्श्रेष्ठांस्तस्मिन्काले ददाति सा ॥

yā'sau varṣasahasrānte mūrtiruttiṣṭhate mama | varārhebhyo varāñśreṣṭhāṃstasminkāle dadāti sā

"The form of mine that rises at the end of the thousand years gives at that time the best of boons to those fit for boons."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-35 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 36 (7.29.36)

तं तु कालमनुप्राप्तं विदित्वा पृथिवी तदा । अयाचत वरं यन्मां नरकार्थाय तच्छृणु ॥

taṃ tu kālamanuprāptaṃ viditvā pṛthivī tadā | ayācata varaṃ yanmāṃ narakārthāya tacchṛṇu

"Knowing that this time had come, Earth then asked me for a boon for Naraka's sake; hear what it was."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-36 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 37 (7.29.37)

देवानां दानवानां च अवध्यस्तनयोऽस्तु मे । उपेतो वैष्णवास्त्रेण तन्मे त्वं दातुमर्हसि ॥

devānāṃ dānavānāṃ ca avadhyastanayo'stu me | upeto vaiṣṇavāstreṇa tanme tvaṃ dātumarhasi

"Let my son be unslayable by gods and Danavas, and let him have the Vaishnava weapon. You ought to give me that."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-37 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 38 (7.29.38)

एवं वरमहं श्रुत्वा जगत्यास्तनये तदा । अमोघमस्त्रं प्रायच्छं वैष्णवं परमं पुरा ॥

evaṃ varamahaṃ śrutvā jagatyāstanaye tadā | amoghamastraṃ prāyacchaṃ vaiṣṇavaṃ paramaṃ purā

"Hearing this boon from the Earth, I then gave her son, long ago, the supreme and unfailing Vaishnava weapon."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-38 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 39 (7.29.39)

अवोचं चैतदस्त्रं वै ह्यमोघं भवतु क्षमे । नरकस्याभिरक्षार्थं नैनं कश्चिद्वधिष्यति ॥

avocaṃ caitadastraṃ vai hyamoghaṃ bhavatu kṣame | narakasyābhirakṣārthaṃ nainaṃ kaścidvadhiṣyati

"And I said, 'Let this weapon be unfailing, O Earth. For Naraka's protection: no one will kill him.'"

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-39 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 40 (7.29.40)

अनेनास्त्रेण ते गुप्तः सुतः परबलार्दनः । भविष्यति दुराधर्षः सर्वलोकेषु सर्वदा ॥

anenāstreṇa te guptaḥ sutaḥ parabalārdanaḥ | bhaviṣyati durādharṣaḥ sarvalokeṣu sarvadā

"Guarded by this weapon, your son will be a crusher of enemy hosts, impossible to overcome in all the worlds at all times."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-40 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 41 (7.29.41)

तथेत्युक्त्वा गता देवी कृतकामा मनस्विनी । स चाप्यासीद्दुराधर्षो नरकः शत्रुतापनः ॥

tathetyuktvā gatā devī kṛtakāmā manasvinī | sa cāpyāsīddurādharṣo narakaḥ śatrutāpanaḥ

"Saying, 'So be it,' the goddess, her wish fulfilled, the high-minded one, went away; and Naraka became unassailable, a scourge of his foes."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-41 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). The critical edition's star passage 7.28.32b*0217_01 (vyajāyata dharā devī …) is not on the page.

Verse 42 (7.29.42)

तस्मात्प्राग्ज्योतिषं प्राप्तं तदस्त्रं पार्थ मामकम् । नास्यावध्योऽस्ति लोकेषु सेन्द्ररुद्रेषु मारिष ॥

tasmātprāgjyotiṣaṃ prāptaṃ tadastraṃ pārtha māmakam | nāsyāvadhyo'sti lokeṣu sendrarudreṣu māriṣa

"From him that weapon of mine has come to Pragjyotisha, Partha; in the worlds, O sire, even among those with Indra and Rudra, there is no one who is immune to it."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-42 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). The critical edition's star passage 7.28.33b*0218_01–04 is not on the page.

Verse 43 (7.29.43)

तन्मया त्वत्कृते चैतदन्यथैवोपनिर्मितम् । वियुक्तं परमास्त्रेण जहि पार्थ महासुरम् ॥

tanmayā tvatkṛte caitadanyathaivopanirmitam | viyuktaṃ paramāstreṇa jahi pārtha mahāsuram

"For your sake I have made it otherwise: deprived of that supreme weapon, kill the great asura, Partha."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-43 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 44 (7.29.44)

अवध्योऽयं महास्त्रेण भगदत्तः सुरासुरैः । वैरिणं जहि दुर्धर्षं भगदत्तं सुरद्विषम् । यथाऽहं जघ्निवान्पूर्वं हितार्थं नरकं तथा ॥

avadhyo'yaṃ mahāstreṇa bhagadattaḥ surāsuraiḥ | vairiṇaṃ jahi durdharṣaṃ bhagadattaṃ suradviṣam | yathā'haṃ jaghnivānpūrvaṃ hitārthaṃ narakaṃ tathā

"Protected by that great weapon, this Bhagadatta cannot be killed by gods and asuras. Kill the unassailable enemy Bhagadatta, foe of the gods, as I once killed Naraka for the good of the world."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-44 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Three lines: line 1 is the critical edition's star passage 7.28.35d*0219_01 (not in the constituted text); lines 2 and 3 are its 7.28.35a and 35c. Removed the stray quote mark printed after line 1 (सुरासुरैः').

Verse 45 (7.29.45)

एवमुक्तस्तदा पार्थः केशवेन महात्मना । भगदत्तं शितैर्बाणैः सहसा समवाकिरत् ॥

evamuktastadā pārthaḥ keśavena mahātmanā | bhagadattaṃ śitairbāṇaiḥ sahasā samavākirat

Thus addressed by the great-souled Keshava, Partha at once covered Bhagadatta with sharp arrows.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-45 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 46 (7.29.46)

ततः पार्थो महाबाहुरसम्भ्रान्तो महामनाः । कुम्भयोरन्तरे नागं नाराचेन समार्पयत् ॥

tataḥ pārtho mahābāhurasambhrānto mahāmanāḥ | kumbhayorantare nāgaṃ nārācena samārpayat

Then Partha, mighty-armed, unflustered and great of mind, struck the elephant between its temples with a nārāca arrow.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-46 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 47 (7.29.47)

स समासाद्य तं नागं बाणो वज्र इवाचलम् । अभ्यगात्सह पुङ्खेन वल्मीकमिव पन्नगः ॥

sa samāsādya taṃ nāgaṃ bāṇo vajra ivācalam | abhyagātsaha puṅkhena valmīkamiva pannagaḥ

Reaching the elephant, that arrow went in, feathers and all, as a thunderbolt enters a mountain or a snake an anthill.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-47 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 48 (7.29.48)

स करी भगदत्तेन प्रेर्यमाणो मुहुर्मुहुः । न करोति वचस्तस्य दरिद्रस्येव योषिता ॥

sa karī bhagadattena preryamāṇo muhurmuhuḥ | na karoti vacastasya daridrasyeva yoṣitā

Urged again and again by Bhagadatta, the elephant no longer obeyed him, as a wife will not obey a poor man.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-48 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.38d*0222_01–02. (योषिता for kāminī.)

Verse 49 (7.29.49)

स तु विष्टभ्य गात्राणि दन्ताभ्यामवनिं ययौ । नदन्नार्तस्वनं प्राणानुत्ससर्ज महाद्विपः ॥

sa tu viṣṭabhya gātrāṇi dantābhyāmavaniṃ yayau | nadannārtasvanaṃ prāṇānutsasarja mahādvipaḥ

Bracing its limbs, it sank to the ground on its tusks, and with a cry of pain the great elephant gave up its life.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-49 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 50 (7.29.50)

ततो गाण्डीवधन्वानमभ्यभाषत केशवः । अयं महत्तरः पार्थ पलितेन समावृतः ॥

tato gāṇḍīvadhanvānamabhyabhāṣata keśavaḥ | ayaṃ mahattaraḥ pārtha palitena samāvṛtaḥ

Then Keshava said to the wielder of the Gandiva: "This king, Partha, is very old and covered with grey hair."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-50 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.39d*0224_01–02. Line 1 is narration; line 2 begins Krishna's speech, which continues in verse 51.

Verse 51 (7.29.51)

वलीसञ्छन्ननयनः शूरः परमदुर्जयः । अक्ष्णोरुन्मीलनार्थाय बद्धपट्टो ह्यसौ नृपः ॥

valīsañchannanayanaḥ śūraḥ paramadurjayaḥ | akṣṇorunmīlanārthāya baddhapaṭṭo hyasau nṛpaḥ

"His eyes are hidden by wrinkles, and he is a hero hard to overcome; the king has bound a band round his head to hold his eyelids open."

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-51 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.39d*0224_03 and 0225_01. Corrected परमद्रुर्जयः → परमदुर्जयः (misprint in Wikisource; transposed letters — the critical edition reads paramadurjayaḥ). The verse is wholly Krishna's speech (no heading is printed, so the speaker is taken from the sense).

Verse 52 (7.29.52)

देववाक्यात्प्रचिच्छेद शरेण भृशमर्जुनः । छिन्नमात्रेऽंशुके तस्मिन्रुद्धनेत्रो बभूव सः ॥

devavākyātpraciccheda śareṇa bhṛśamarjunaḥ | chinnamātre'ṃśuke tasminruddhanetro babhūva saḥ

At the god's word Arjuna cut it with an arrow; and as soon as the cloth was cut, his eyes were shut.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-52 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); the critical edition records it in its apparatus as the star passage 7.28.39d*0225_02–03. Corrected छिन्नमात्रेंऽशुके → छिन्नमात्रेऽंशुके (misprint in Wikisource; the anusvara of अंशुक stands on the wrong letter — the critical edition's apparatus prints the same misplacement, chinnamātreṃ 'śuke).

Verse 53 (7.29.53)

तमोमयं जगन्मेने भगदत्तः प्रतापवान् । ततश्चन्द्रार्धबिम्बेन बाणेन नतपर्वणा ॥

tamomayaṃ jaganmene bhagadattaḥ pratāpavān | tataścandrārdhabimbena bāṇena nataparvaṇā

The glorious Bhagadatta took the world to be filled with darkness. Then, with a straight-jointed arrow headed like a half-moon,

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-53 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's star passage 7.28.39d*0226_01 (not in the constituted text); line 2 is its 7.28.40a.

Verse 54 (7.29.54)

बिभेद हृदयं राज्ञो भगदत्तस्य पाण्डवः । स भिन्नहृदयो राजा भगदत्तः किरीटिना ॥

bibheda hṛdayaṃ rājño bhagadattasya pāṇḍavaḥ | sa bhinnahṛdayo rājā bhagadattaḥ kirīṭinā

the Pandava split the heart of King Bhagadatta. With his heart split by Kiritin, King Bhagadatta

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-54 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's 7.28.40c; line 2 is its 7.28.41a.

Verse 55 (7.29.55)

शरासनं शरांश्चैव गतासुः प्रमुमोच ह । शिरसस्तस्य विभ्रष्टं पपात च वरांशुकम् । नालताडनविभ्रष्टं पलाशं नलिनादिव ॥

śarāsanaṃ śarāṃścaiva gatāsuḥ pramumoca ha | śirasastasya vibhraṣṭaṃ papāta ca varāṃśukam | nālatāḍanavibhraṣṭaṃ palāśaṃ nalinādiva

lost his life and let fall his bow and arrows. The fine cloth slipped from his head and fell, like a petal knocked loose from a lotus by the blow of a stalk.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-55 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Line 1 is the critical edition's 7.28.41c; lines 2 and 3 are its 7.28.42a and 42c (वरांशुकम् for varāṅkuśaḥ).

Verse 56 (7.29.56)

स हेममाली तपनीयभाण्डात्पपात नागाद्गिरिसन्निकाशात् । सुपुष्पितो मारुतवेगभग्नो महीधराग्रादिव कर्णिकारः ॥

sa hemamālī tapanīyabhāṇḍātpapāta nāgādgirisannikāśāt | supuṣpito mārutavegabhagno mahīdharāgrādiva karṇikāraḥ

Wearing a golden garland, he fell from his mountain-like elephant and its gilded trappings, like a flowering karnikara tree, broken by the force of the wind, from the peak of a mountain.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-56 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks).

Verse 57 (7.29.57)

निहत्य तं नरपतिमिन्द्रविक्रमं सखायमिन्द्रस्य तदैन्द्रिराहवे । ततोऽपरांस्तव जयकाङ्क्षिणो नरान् बभञ्ज वायुर्बलवान्द्रुमानिव ॥

nihatya taṃ narapatimindravikramaṃ sakhāyamindrasya tadaindrirāhave | tato'parāṃstava jayakāṅkṣiṇo narān babhañja vāyurbalavāndrumāniva

Having killed that king, equal to Indra in valour and a friend of Indra, Indra's son then broke other men, who wished your victory, in that battle, as a strong wind breaks trees.

Note on the text: Verse 5-29-57 of the page, split out of the input's joined block (the page is a poem-only page; the input had merged its 57 verses into four speaker blocks). Corrected सस्वायम् → सखायम् (misprint in Wikisource; the critical edition reads sakhāyam indrasya). The page's closing colophon and the editorial notes after the poem (Sanskrit glosses on 5-29-33, 34 and 48, and a line repeating verse 18 with a link) are not verses and were dropped (this is presumably the dangling text the input parser flagged).