Shalya Mocks Karna's Boast

Verse 1 (8.33.1)

मा सूतपुत्र मन्येथाः सौवर्णं हस्तिषङ्गवम् । प्रयच्छसि मुधैव त्वं द्रक्ष्यस्यद्य धनञ्जयम् ॥

mā sūtaputra manyethāḥ sauvarṇaṃ hastiṣaṅgavam | prayacchasi mudhaiva tvaṃ drakṣyasyadya dhanañjayam

Son of a charioteer, do not suppose it: you hand out this golden gift of an elephant with six oxen to no purpose, for today you will see Dhananjaya all the same.

Note on the text: Corrected मन्येत(थाः) → मन्येथाः (the page prints the correction in brackets after a faulty मन्येत; मा takes the injunctive मन्येथाः; the stray brackets removed). This verse and the next both correspond to CE 8.27.18 (mā sūtaputra mānena sauvarṇaṃ hastiṣaḍgavam / prayaccha puruṣāyādya drakṣyasi tvaṃ dhanaṃjayam); Wikisource gives two versions of it, this one with different wording (similarity 0.733); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 2 (8.33.2)

मा सूतपुत्र दानेन सौवर्णं हस्तिषङ्गवम् । प्रयच्छ पुरुषायाद्य द्रक्ष्यसि त्वं धनञ्जयम् ॥

mā sūtaputra dānena sauvarṇaṃ hastiṣaṅgavam | prayaccha puruṣāyādya drakṣyasi tvaṃ dhanañjayam

Son of a charioteer, do not give away, as gifts, golden elephants with their six oxen to men; you will see Dhananjaya today in any case.

Note on the text: Second Wikisource version of CE 8.27.18 (see the note on the previous verse); दानेन for CE mānena, a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 3 (8.33.3)

बलेन मत्तस्त्यजसि वसु वैश्रवणो यथा । अयत्नेनैव राधेय द्रष्टास्यद्य धनञ्जयम् ॥

balena mattastyajasi vasu vaiśravaṇo yathā | ayatnenaiva rādheya draṣṭāsyadya dhanañjayam

Drunk with your strength, you throw wealth away as Vaishravana does; without any effort at all, Radheya, you will see Dhananjaya today.

Verse 4 (8.33.4)

पुरा सृजसि यच्चापि वित्तं बहु च मूढवत् । अपात्रदानाद्ये दोषास्तान्मोहान्नावबुध्यसे ॥

purā sṛjasi yaccāpi vittaṃ bahu ca mūḍhavat | apātradānādye doṣāstānmohānnāvabudhyase

And the wealth you have long been scattering in such quantity, like a fool, you do not see, in your delusion, the faults that come of giving to the unworthy.

Verse 5 (8.33.5)

यत्प्रवेदयसे वित्तं बहु तेन खलु त्वया । शक्यं बहुविधैर्यज्ञैर्यष्टुं सूत यजस्व तैः ॥

yatpravedayase vittaṃ bahu tena khalu tvayā | śakyaṃ bahuvidhairyajñairyaṣṭuṃ sūta yajasva taiḥ

The great wealth you proclaim: with it, surely, sacrifices of many kinds could be performed, charioteer; sacrifice with it.

Verse 6 (8.33.6)

यच्च प्रार्थयसे हन्तुं कृष्णौ मोहाद्वृथैव तत् । न हि शुश्रुम सम्मर्दे क्रोष्ट्रा सिंहौ निपातितौ ॥

yacca prārthayase hantuṃ kṛṣṇau mohādvṛthaiva tat | na hi śuśruma sammarde kroṣṭrā siṃhau nipātitau

And your wish to kill the two Krishnas is vain, born of delusion: we have never heard of two lions being brought down in battle by a jackal.

Verse 7 (8.33.7)

अप्रार्थितं प्रार्थयसे सुहृदो न हि सन्ति ते । ये त्वां निवारयन्त्याशु प्रपतन्तं हुताशने ॥

aprārthitaṃ prārthayase suhṛdo na hi santi te | ye tvāṃ nivārayantyāśu prapatantaṃ hutāśane

You seek what no one should seek; you have no friends, for no one holds you back as you rush into the fire.

Verse 8 (8.33.8)

कार्याकार्यं न जानीषे कालपक्वोऽस्यसंशयम् । बह्वबद्धमकर्णीयं को हि ब्रूयाज्जिजीविषुः ॥

kāryākāryaṃ na jānīṣe kālapakvo'syasaṃśayam | bahvabaddhamakarṇīyaṃ ko hi brūyājjijīviṣuḥ

You do not know what is to be done and what is not; without doubt you are ripe for death. Who, wishing to live, would speak so much that is incoherent and unfit to be heard?

Note on the text: Corrected कालपक्कोऽस्य → कालपक्वोऽस्य (misprint in Wikisource; क्व printed as क्क; CE kālapakvo 'sy). Wikisource's line 1 reads कार्याकार्यं for CE kālakāryaṃ, a recension variant, kept.

Verse 9 (8.33.9)

समुद्रतरणं दोर्भ्यां कण्ठे बद्ध्वा यथा शिलाम् । गिर्यग्राद्वा निपतनं तादृक्तव चिकीर्षितम् ॥

samudrataraṇaṃ dorbhyāṃ kaṇṭhe baddhvā yathā śilām | giryagrādvā nipatanaṃ tādṛktava cikīrṣitam

What you intend is like crossing the ocean with your arms with a stone tied round your neck, or like leaping from the peak of a mountain.

Note on the text: Corrected तादृक्त्व → तादृक्तव (misprint in Wikisource; a dropped अ; CE tādṛk tava cikīrṣitam).

Verse 10 (8.33.10)

सहितः सर्वयोधैस्त्वं व्यूढानीकैः सुरक्षितः । धनञ्जयेन युध्यस्व श्रेयश्चेत्प्राप्तुमिच्छसि ॥

sahitaḥ sarvayodhaistvaṃ vyūḍhānīkaiḥ surakṣitaḥ | dhanañjayena yudhyasva śreyaścetprāptumicchasi

Fight Dhananjaya, if you wish to gain your good, together with all your warriors, in battle array and well guarded.

Verse 11 (8.33.11)

हितार्थं धार्तराष्ट्रस्य ब्रवीमि त्वां न हिंसया । श्रद्धस्वेदं मया प्रोक्तं यदि तेऽस्ति जिजीविषा ॥

hitārthaṃ dhārtarāṣṭrasya bravīmi tvāṃ na hiṃsayā | śraddhasvedaṃ mayā proktaṃ yadi te'sti jijīviṣā

I tell you this for the good of Dhritarashtra's son, not out of malice. Believe what I have said, if you have any wish to live.

Verse 12 (8.33.12)

स्वबाहुवीर्यमाश्रित्य प्रार्थयाम्यर्जुनं रणे । त्वं तु मित्रमुखः शत्रुर्मां भीषयितुमिच्छसि ॥

svabāhuvīryamāśritya prārthayāmyarjunaṃ raṇe | tvaṃ tu mitramukhaḥ śatrurmāṃ bhīṣayitumicchasi

Relying on the strength of my own arms I seek Arjuna in battle; but you, a foe wearing a friend's face, want to frighten me.

Verse 13 (8.33.13)

न मामस्मादभिप्रायात्कश्चिदद्य निवर्तयेत् । अपीन्द्रो वज्रमुद्यम्य किमु मर्त्यः कथञ्चन ॥

na māmasmādabhiprāyātkaścidadya nivartayet | apīndro vajramudyamya kimu martyaḥ kathañcana

No one could turn me back from this resolve today, not even Indra with his thunderbolt raised; how much less a mortal, however he tried.

Verse 14 (8.33.14)

इति कर्णस्य वाक्यान्ते शल्यः प्राहोत्तरं वचः । चुकोपयिषुरत्यर्थं कर्णं मद्रेश्वरः पुनः ॥

iti karṇasya vākyānte śalyaḥ prāhottaraṃ vacaḥ | cukopayiṣuratyarthaṃ karṇaṃ madreśvaraḥ punaḥ

When Karna had finished speaking, Shalya, lord of the Madras, wishing to enrage Karna the more, answered him again.

Verse 15 (8.33.15)

यदा वै त्वां फल्गुनबाहुवेगाज् । ज्याचोदिता वेगवन्तोऽग्निकल्पाः । अन्वेतारः कङ्कपत्राः शिताग्रास् । त्यक्ष्यत्येषा स्वां तदा कर्ण बुद्धिः ॥

yadā vai tvāṃ phalgunabāhuvegāj | jyācoditā vegavanto'gnikalpāḥ | anvetāraḥ kaṅkapatrāḥ śitāgrās | tyakṣyatyeṣā svāṃ tadā karṇa buddhiḥ

When arrows, swift and fiery, loosed from the string by the force of Phalguna's arms, with heron feathers and keen points, come hunting after you, then, Karna, this mind of yours will give up its resolve.

Note on the text: Speaker corrected from सञ्जय to शल्य: the page prints no new heading after the सञ्जय उवाच of the previous verse, which only introduces the narration; this and the following verses are Shalya's speech, as in the critical edition. Four lines (CE 8.27.31ab and 31cd). The page splits two sandhis across lines (बाहुवेगा-- / ज्ज्या and शिताग्रा-- / स्त्यक्ष्यत्येषा, with double hyphens); written here with the sandhi consonants moved to the end of the preceding lines (बाहुवेगाज् । ज्याचोदिता; शिताग्रास् । त्यक्ष्यत्येषा), as the critical edition prints them (phalgunaveganunnā; jyācoditā). Wikisource's wording differs from CE (phalgunaveganunnā jyācoditā hastavatā visṛṣṭāḥ ... tadā tapsyasy arjunasyābhiyogāt); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 16 (8.33.16)

यदा दिव्यं धनुरादाय पार्थः । प्रतापयन्पृतनां सव्यसाची । त्वां मर्दयिष्यत्यसुखैः पृषत्कैस् । तदापृच्छां त्यक्ष्यसे पाण्डवस्य ॥

yadā divyaṃ dhanurādāya pārthaḥ | pratāpayanpṛtanāṃ savyasācī | tvāṃ mardayiṣyatyasukhaiḥ pṛṣatkais | tadāpṛcchāṃ tyakṣyase pāṇḍavasya

When Partha, the left-handed archer, takes up his divine bow and scorches the host, and crushes you with painful arrows, then you will give up asking after the son of Pandu.

Note on the text: Corrected दिर्व्य → दिव्यं (misprint in Wikisource; र् inserted and the anusvara dropped; CE divyaṃ dhanur ādāya). The page splits a sandhi across lines (पृषत्कै-- / स्तदापृच्छां, with a double hyphen); written here with the sandhi स् moved to the end of line 3 (पृषत्कैस् । तदापृच्छां). Wikisource's last line (तदापृच्छां त्यक्ष्यसे पाण्डवस्य, read तदा पृच्छां) differs from CE (tadā paścāt tapsyase sūtaputra); a recension variant, Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 17 (8.33.17)

बालश्चन्द्रं मातुरङ्के शयानो । यथा कश्चित्प्रार्थयतेऽपहर्तुम् । तद्वन्मोहाद्द्योतमानं रथस्थं । जेतुं पार्थं काङ्क्षसे सूतपुत्र ॥

bālaścandraṃ māturaṅke śayāno | yathā kaścitprārthayate'pahartum | tadvanmohāddyotamānaṃ rathasthaṃ | jetuṃ pārthaṃ kāṅkṣase sūtaputra

As a child lying in his mother's lap might long to steal the moon, so you, out of folly, want to conquer Partha, blazing on his chariot, O son of a charioteer.

Note on the text: Corrected दयोतामानं → द्योतमानं (misprint in Wikisource; stray letters य and ा; the evident word is द्योतमानम्, "shining"). Four lines (CE 8.27.33ab and 33cd); Wikisource's line 3 differs from CE (tadvan mohād yatamāno rathasthas), a recension variant, kept.

Verse 18 (8.33.18)

हरादस्त्रं तीक्ष्णधारं यथाऽद्य । सर्वाणि गात्राणि निकर्षसि त्वम् । सुतीक्ष्णशस्त्रोपमकर्मणेह । युयुत्ससे फल्गुनेनाद्य कर्ण ॥

harādastraṃ tīkṣṇadhāraṃ yathā'dya | sarvāṇi gātrāṇi nikarṣasi tvam | sutīkṣṇaśastropamakarmaṇeha | yuyutsase phalgunenādya karṇa

As if you were dragging every limb of your body across a keen-edged weapon, so by an act as perilous as the sharpest blade, Karna, you want to fight Phalguna today.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension). The opening word हरादस्त्रं is unclear in Wikisource and is kept as printed; the verse is translated by its evident sense (cf. the next verses, which compare Karna to a man rubbing himself on a blade).

Verse 19 (8.33.19)

खन्यादसिं तीक्ष्णधारं यथाऽज्ञः । सुतेजनं निहितं वै पृथिव्याम् । तथा खनस्यद्य शितान्पृषत्कान् । यथार्थयस्यर्जुनेनेह युद्धम् ॥

khanyādasiṃ tīkṣṇadhāraṃ yathā'jñaḥ | sutejanaṃ nihitaṃ vai pṛthivyām | tathā khanasyadya śitānpṛṣatkān | yathārthayasyarjuneneha yuddham

As an ignorant man might dig up a keen-edged sword, well whetted, buried in the ground, so, in seeking battle with Arjuna here, you are digging up sharp arrows for yourself today.

Note on the text: 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 8.27.33d*0315 (lines 01–04: khanyād asiṃ tīkṣṇadhāraṃ yathājñaḥ / sutejanaṃ nihitaṃ vai pṛthivyām / tathā khanasy adya śitān pṛṣatkān / yaḥ prārthayasy arjuneneha yuddham). Corrected हन्यादसिं → खन्यादसिं and यथाऽतः → यथाऽज्ञः (misprints in Wikisource; the sense is of digging up a buried sword, and the CE star passage reads khanyād and yathājñaḥ). The page splits a sandhi across lines (पृषत्का-- / न्यथार्थयस्यर्जुनेनेह, with a double hyphen); written here with the न् moved to the end of line 3 (पृषत्कान् । यथार्थयस्यर्जुनेनेह).

Verse 20 (8.33.20)

त्रिशूलमाश्लिष्य सुतीक्ष्णधारं । सर्वाणि गात्राणि विघर्षसि त्वम् । सुतीक्ष्णधारोपमकर्मणा त्वं । युयुत्ससे योऽर्जुनेनाद्य कर्ण ॥

triśūlamāśliṣya sutīkṣṇadhāraṃ | sarvāṇi gātrāṇi vigharṣasi tvam | sutīkṣṇadhāropamakarmaṇā tvaṃ | yuyutsase yo'rjunenādya karṇa

You hug a trident of the keenest edge and rub all your limbs against it: by such a deed, as perilous as a razor's edge, you, Karna, want to fight Arjuna today.

Verse 21 (8.33.21)

क्रुद्धं सिंहं केसरिणं बृहन्तं । बालो मूढः क्षुद्रमृगस्तरस्वी । समाह्वयेद्वृष्टमुपेत्य योद्धुं । तथा त्वमद्याह्वयसे हि पार्थम् ॥

kruddhaṃ siṃhaṃ kesariṇaṃ bṛhantaṃ | bālo mūḍhaḥ kṣudramṛgastarasvī | samāhvayedvṛṣṭamupetya yoddhuṃ | tathā tvamadyāhvayase hi pārtham

As a foolish young deer, small though swift, might challenge to battle an angry, huge, maned lion, having come right up to it, so today you challenge Partha.

Note on the text: Matches CE 8.27.35 only in its sense and its lines 1–3 (siddhaṃ siṃhaṃ kesariṇaṃ bṛhantaṃ / bālo mūḍhaḥ kṣudramṛgas tarasvī / samāhvayet tadvad etat tavādya ...); the last two lines differ (CE samāhvānaṃ sūtaputrārjunasya; Wikisource tathā tvam adyāhvayase hi pārtham), and the third line's वृष्टमुपेत्य is unclear in Wikisource and is kept as printed. A recension variant.

Verse 22 (8.33.22)

मा सूतपुत्राह्वय राजपुत्रं । महावीर्यं केसरिणं यथैव । वने शृगालः पिशितेन तृप्तः । पार्थं समासाद्य विनङ्क्ष्यसि त्वम् ॥

mā sūtaputrāhvaya rājaputraṃ | mahāvīryaṃ kesariṇaṃ yathaiva | vane śṛgālaḥ piśitena tṛptaḥ | pārthaṃ samāsādya vinaṅkṣyasi tvam

Do not challenge the prince, O son of a charioteer, the great hero who is like a maned lion. Like a jackal in the forest, filled with meat, you will perish once you come face to face with Partha.

Verse 23 (8.33.23)

ईषादन्तं महानागं प्रभिन्नकरटामुखम् । शशको ह्वयसे युद्धे कर्ण पार्थं धनञ्जयम् ॥

īṣādantaṃ mahānāgaṃ prabhinnakaraṭāmukham | śaśako hvayase yuddhe karṇa pārthaṃ dhanañjayam

You, a hare, call out in battle, Karna, to the great elephant with tusks like plough-poles and temples streaming with rut, to Partha Dhananjaya.

Note on the text: Corrected हयसे → ह्वयसे (misprint in Wikisource; the conjunct ह्व dropped to ह) and युद्वे → युद्धे (ध printed as द्व). CE śaśakāhvayase.

Verse 24 (8.33.24)

विलस्थं कृष्णसर्पं त्वं बाल्यात्काष्ठेन विध्यसि । महाविषं पूर्णकोपं यत्पार्थं योद्धुमिच्छसि ॥

vilasthaṃ kṛṣṇasarpaṃ tvaṃ bālyātkāṣṭhena vidhyasi | mahāviṣaṃ pūrṇakopaṃ yatpārthaṃ yoddhumicchasi

Like a child, you prod with a stick a black cobra lying in its hole, full of rage and deadly poison, in wishing to fight Partha.

Note on the text: Corrected जाल्यात् → बाल्यात् (misprint in Wikisource; CE bālyāt kāṣṭhena) and योद्वुमिच्छसि → योद्धुमिच्छसि (ध printed as द्व). Wikisource's महाविषं पूर्णकोपं for CE mahāviṣaṃ pūrṇakośaṃ, a recension variant, kept.

Verse 25 (8.33.25)

सिंहं केसरिणं क्रुद्धमभिक्रम्याभिनर्दसे । शृगाल इव मूढस्त्वं नृसिंहं कर्ण पाण्डवम् ॥

siṃhaṃ kesariṇaṃ kruddhamabhikramyābhinardase | śṛgāla iva mūḍhastvaṃ nṛsiṃhaṃ karṇa pāṇḍavam

You roar, like a jackal in your folly, at the angry maned lion after advancing on him, at the lion among men, Karna, the Pandava.

Verse 26 (8.33.26)

सुपर्णं पतगश्रेष्ठं वैनतेयं तरस्विनम् । स्वगेवाह्वयसे पार्थं तथा कर्ण धनञ्जयम् ॥

suparṇaṃ patagaśreṣṭhaṃ vainateyaṃ tarasvinam | svagevāhvayase pārthaṃ tathā karṇa dhanañjayam

As some little bird might challenge Suparna, the swift son of Vinata, best of birds, so you, Karna, challenge Partha, Dhananjaya.

Note on the text: Corrected तथा कर्णं → तथा कर्ण (misprint in Wikisource; a stray anusvara on the vocative; CE karṇa pārthaṃ dhanaṃjayam). The word स्वगेवाह्वयसे is unclear in Wikisource (CE laṭvevāhvayase, "like a lapwing") and is kept as printed, translated as "some little bird".

Verse 27 (8.33.27)

सर्वाम्भसां निधिं भीमं मूर्तिमन्तं झषाकुलम् । चन्द्रोदये विवर्धन्तमप्लवस्त्वं तितीर्षसि ॥

sarvāmbhasāṃ nidhiṃ bhīmaṃ mūrtimantaṃ jhaṣākulam | candrodaye vivardhantamaplavastvaṃ titīrṣasi

The ocean, store of all waters, fearsome, a very embodiment, thronging with fish and swelling at moonrise: that you wish to cross without a raft.

Note on the text: Corrected अप्लुवस्त्वं → अप्लवस्त्वं (misprint in Wikisource; the word is अप्लवः "without a raft", as the page's own gloss and CE aplavaḥ have it).

Verse 28 (8.33.28)

ऋषभं दुन्दुभिग्रीवं तीक्ष्णशृङ्गं प्रहारिणम् । वत्स आह्वयसे युद्धे कर्ण पार्थं धनञ्जयम् ॥

ṛṣabhaṃ dundubhigrīvaṃ tīkṣṇaśṛṅgaṃ prahāriṇam | vatsa āhvayase yuddhe karṇa pārthaṃ dhanañjayam

Like a calf, you challenge in battle, Karna, the bull with a neck like a drum, sharp horns and a fighter's blows: Partha Dhananjaya.

Note on the text: Corrected युद्वे → युद्धे (ध printed as द्व).

Verse 29 (8.33.29)

महामेघं महाघोषं दर्दुरः प्रतिनर्दसि । बाणतोयप्रदं काले नरपर्जन्यमर्जुनम् ॥

mahāmeghaṃ mahāghoṣaṃ darduraḥ pratinardasi | bāṇatoyapradaṃ kāle naraparjanyamarjunam

Like a frog you croak back at the great cloud of mighty thunder, Arjuna, the rain-cloud among men who gives the water of arrows in due season.

Verse 30 (8.33.30)

यथा च श्वा गृहस्थस्तु व्याघ्रं वनगतं भषेत् । तथा त्वं भषसे कर्ण नरव्याघ्रं धनञ्जयम् ॥

yathā ca śvā gṛhasthastu vyāghraṃ vanagataṃ bhaṣet | tathā tvaṃ bhaṣase karṇa naravyāghraṃ dhanañjayam

As a household dog might bark at a tiger in the forest, so you bark, Karna, at Dhananjaya, the tiger among men.

Verse 31 (8.33.31)

शृगालो हि वने कर्ण शशैः परिवृतो वसन् । मन्यते सिंहमात्मानं यावत्सिंहं न पश्यति ॥

śṛgālo hi vane karṇa śaśaiḥ parivṛto vasan | manyate siṃhamātmānaṃ yāvatsiṃhaṃ na paśyati

A jackal living in the forest, surrounded by hares, thinks himself a lion, Karna, until he sees a lion.

Verse 32 (8.33.32)

तथा त्वमपि राधेय सिंहमात्मानमिच्छसि । अपश्यञ्शत्रुदमनं नरसिंहं रणेऽर्जुनम् ॥

tathā tvamapi rādheya siṃhamātmānamicchasi | apaśyañśatrudamanaṃ narasiṃhaṃ raṇe'rjunam

So you too, Radheya, think yourself a lion, as long as you have not seen Arjuna, the lion among men and tamer of foes, in battle.

Verse 33 (8.33.33)

व्याघ्रं त्वं मन्यसेऽऽत्मानं यावत्कृष्णौ न पश्यसि । समास्थितावेकरथे सूर्याचन्द्रमसाविव ॥

vyāghraṃ tvaṃ manyase''tmānaṃ yāvatkṛṣṇau na paśyasi | samāsthitāvekarathe sūryācandramasāviva

You think yourself a tiger so long as you do not see the two Krishnas standing in one chariot, like the sun and the moon.

Verse 34 (8.33.34)

यावद्गाण्डीवघोषं त्वं न शृणोषि महाहवे । तावदेव त्वया कर्ण शक्यं वक्तुं यथेच्छसि ॥

yāvadgāṇḍīvaghoṣaṃ tvaṃ na śṛṇoṣi mahāhave | tāvadeva tvayā karṇa śakyaṃ vaktuṃ yathecchasi

Only so long as you do not hear the twang of the Gandiva in the great battle, Karna, can you say whatever you like.

Note on the text: Corrected ग्राण्डीव → गाण्डीव (misprint in Wikisource; a stray र).

Verse 35 (8.33.35)

रथशङ्खधनुःशब्दैर्नादयन्तं दिशो दश । नर्दन्तमिव शार्दूलं दृष्ट्वा क्रोष्टा भविष्यसि ॥

rathaśaṅkhadhanuḥśabdairnādayantaṃ diśo daśa | nardantamiva śārdūlaṃ dṛṣṭvā kroṣṭā bhaviṣyasi

When you see him filling the ten directions with the sound of his chariot, conch and bow, roaring like a tiger, you will turn into a jackal.

Verse 36 (8.33.36)

नित्यमेव शृगालस्त्वं नित्यं सिंहो धनञ्जयः । वीरप्रद्वेषणान्मूढ तस्मात्क्रोष्टेव लक्ष्यसे ॥

nityameva śṛgālastvaṃ nityaṃ siṃho dhanañjayaḥ | vīrapradveṣaṇānmūḍha tasmātkroṣṭeva lakṣyase

You are always a jackal and Dhananjaya always a lion; because you hate heroes, fool, you always look like a jackal.

Verse 37 (8.33.37)

यथाऽऽखुः स्याद्विडालश्च श्वा व्याघ्रश्च बलाबले । यथा शृगालः सिंहश्च यथा च शशकुञ्जरौ ॥

yathā''khuḥ syādviḍālaśca śvā vyāghraśca balābale | yathā śṛgālaḥ siṃhaśca yathā ca śaśakuñjarau

As a mouse and a cat, a dog and a tiger, a jackal and a lion, a hare and an elephant differ in strength and weakness,

Verse 38 (8.33.38)

यथाऽनृतं च सत्यं च यथा चापि विषामृते । तथा त्वमपि पार्थश्च प्रख्यातावात्मकर्मभिः ॥

yathā'nṛtaṃ ca satyaṃ ca yathā cāpi viṣāmṛte | tathā tvamapi pārthaśca prakhyātāvātmakarmabhiḥ

as falsehood and truth, as poison and nectar, so are you and Partha, each famed by his own deeds.