The Armies Clash in Single Combats

Verse 1 (8.79.1)

समागमे पाण्डवसृञ्जयानां । महाभये मामकानामगाधे । धनञ्जये तात रणाय याते । कर्णेन तद्युद्धमथोऽत्र कीदृक् ॥

samāgame pāṇḍavasṛñjayānāṃ | mahābhaye māmakānāmagādhe | dhanañjaye tāta raṇāya yāte | karṇena tadyuddhamatho'tra kīdṛk

When the Pandavas and the Srinjayas had come together in that battle, so fearful and unfathomable for my own men, and Dhananjaya had gone out to the fight, my dear Sanjaya, what was that duel with Karna like there?

Note on the text: Speaker: the bracketed heading [धृतराष्ट्र उवाच (row 8-79-1x) had been folded into the input's text; removed from the Sanskrit and made the speaker, and the stray brackets and the double danda (।।]) removed. Corrected तद्युद्व → तद्युद्ध (misprint in Wikisource; the final conjunct is broken; CE tad yuddham). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); it is the CE star passage 8.53.0*0807_01–04 (printed before 8.53.1, with its heading dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca at *0807_00): line 3 is identical; lines 1, 2 and 4 are recension variants (Wikisource समागमे, महाभये मामकानामगाधे and कर्णेन तद्युद्धमथोऽत्र कीदृक् for the CE's mahābhaye pāṇḍavasṛñjayānāṃ, mahābhaye māmakānām agādhe and babhūva tad yuddham atho nu kīdṛk), Wikisource's reading kept. ADHYAYA NOTE: this page (Wikisource adhyaya 79) is the real text of its adhyaya (CE 8.53). The page 078 carries an identical stray copy of this page's text (rows 8-79-1 to 8-79-17 and the colophon of adhyaya 79), so the 078 input aligned to CE 8.53 and this input shows no CE match. The heading line द्वन्द्वयुद्धम्।। 1 ।। is a chapter-summary heading, not a verse. The page has no second text block after its colophon; only a gloss list follows it (8-79-10 पाञ्चालेयं पाञ्चालीतनयं नाकुलिम्; the adhyaya name), which is not added.

Verse 2 (8.79.2)

तेषामनीकानि महाध्वजानि । रणे समृद्धानि सुसङ्गतानि । भेरीनिनादोन्मुखराण्यगर्जन् । मेघा इव प्रावृषि मारुतास्ताः ॥

teṣāmanīkāni mahādhvajāni | raṇe samṛddhāni susaṅgatāni | bherīninādonmukharāṇyagarjan | meghā iva prāvṛṣi mārutāstāḥ

Their hosts, with their great banners, flourishing in the battle and closely massed, roared loudly with the din of the kettledrums, like rain-clouds driven by the winds in the monsoon.

Note on the text: Corrected भेरीनिरादोन्मुखराण्यंगर्ज-- → भेरीनिनादोन्मुखराण्यगर्जन् (misprint in Wikisource; निरादो for निनादो and a stray anusvara before ग; the CE reads bherīninādair mukharāṇy agarjan in 8.53.1d*0808_01). The page splits a sandhi across the line break (राण्यंगर्ज-- । / न्मेघा); written here with the word-end resolved (अगर्जन् । मेघा), the line division kept. Lines 1–2 = CE 8.53.1a (Wikisource महाध्वजानि, सुसङ्गतानि for CE bṛhaddhvajāni, samāgatāni, recension variants); lines 3–4 = the CE star passage 8.53.1d*0808_01–02.

Verse 3 (8.79.3)

महागजाभ्राकुलमस्त्रतोयं । वादित्रनेमीतलशब्दवच्च । हिरण्यचित्रायुधविद्युतं च । शरासिनाराचमहास्त्रधारम् ॥

mahāgajābhrākulamastratoyaṃ | vāditranemītalaśabdavacca | hiraṇyacitrāyudhavidyutaṃ ca | śarāsinārācamahāstradhāram

The battle was like a storm: great elephants were its crowding clouds and weapons its water; the din of instruments, wheel-rims and palms was its thunder, bright golden weapons its lightning, and arrows, swords, iron shafts and the great missiles its streams of rain.

Note on the text: Lines 1–3 = CE 8.53.2ab and the first half of 2c (Wikisource विद्युतं for CE vaidyutaṃ); line 4 शरासिनाराचमहास्त्रधारम् is Wikisource's own where the CE reads mahārathair āvṛtaśabdavac ca (a recension variant), Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 4 (8.79.4)

तद्भीमवेगं रुधिरौघवाहि । खड्गाकुलं क्षत्रियजीवघाति । अनार्तवं क्रूरमनिष्टवर्षं । बभूव संरम्भकरं प्रजानाम् ॥

tadbhīmavegaṃ rudhiraughavāhi | khaḍgākulaṃ kṣatriyajīvaghāti | anārtavaṃ krūramaniṣṭavarṣaṃ | babhūva saṃrambhakaraṃ prajānām

That battle, terrible in its force, streaming with torrents of blood, crowded with swords and destroying the lives of kshatriyas, cruel, unseasonal and raining ill fortune, became a frenzy for all the people.

Note on the text: Corrected खङ्गाकुलं → खड्गाकुलं (misprint in Wikisource; ङ्ग for ड्ग; the CE reads khaḍgākulaṃ). Lines 1–2 = CE 8.53.3a; lines 3–4 = 8.53.3c (Wikisource क्षत्रियजीवघाति and बभूव संरम्भकरं for CE kṣatriyajīvavāhi and babhūva tat saṃharaṇaṃ, recension variants).

Verse 5 (8.79.5)

एकं रथं सम्परिवार्य मृत्युं । नयन्त्यनेके च रथाः समेताः । एकस्तथैकं रथिनं रथाग्र्यान् । तथा रथश्चापि रथाननेकान् ॥

ekaṃ rathaṃ samparivārya mṛtyuṃ | nayantyaneke ca rathāḥ sametāḥ | ekastathaikaṃ rathinaṃ rathāgryān | tathā rathaścāpi rathānanekān

Many chariots in concert surrounded a single chariot and brought it to its death; in the same way one warrior brought one chariot-fighter, and the foremost of chariot-warriors, to death, and one chariot did so to many chariots.

Note on the text: Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); its four lines are the star passage 8.53.3d*0809_01–04 (ekaṃ rathaṃ saṃparivārya mṛtyuṃ … rathān anekān), with the same words. The page splits a sandhi across the line break (रथाग्र्यां-- । / स्तथा); written here with the sandhi resolved (रथाग्र्यान् । तथा), the line division kept.

Verse 6 (8.79.6)

रथं ससूतं सहयं च कञ्चित् । कश्चिद्रथी मृत्युवशं निनाय । निनाय चाप्येकगजेन कश्चित् । रथान्बहून्मृत्युवशे तथाश्वान् ॥

rathaṃ sasūtaṃ sahayaṃ ca kañcit | kaścidrathī mṛtyuvaśaṃ nināya | nināya cāpyekagajena kaścit | rathānbahūnmṛtyuvaśe tathāśvān

One chariot-fighter put a chariot, with its charioteer and horses, into the power of death; another, with a single elephant, did the same to many chariots and horses.

Note on the text: Corrected कश्चिद्रती → कश्चिद्रथी (misprint in Wikisource; ती for थी; CE kaś cid rathī). Not in the critical edition's constituted text (found in the vulgate recension); its four lines are the star passage 8.53.3d*0809_05–08, with the same words. The page splits a sandhi across the line break twice (कञ्चि-- । / त्कश्चिद्रती and कश्चि-- । / द्रथान्); written here with the word-ends resolved (कञ्चित् । कश्चिद्रथी; कश्चित् । रथान्), the line division kept.

Verse 7 (8.79.7)

रथान्ससूतान्सहयान्गजांश्च । सर्वानरीन्मृत्युवशं शरौघैः । निन्ये हयांश्चैव तथा ससादीन् । पदातिसङ्घांश्च तथैव पार्थः ॥

rathānsasūtānsahayāngajāṃśca | sarvānarīnmṛtyuvaśaṃ śaraughaiḥ | ninye hayāṃścaiva tathā sasādīn | padātisaṅghāṃśca tathaiva pārthaḥ

With floods of arrows Partha put into the power of death all his foes: chariots with their charioteers and horses, and elephants, and horses with their riders, and likewise bands of foot-soldiers.

Note on the text: The page splits a sandhi across the line break (ससादी-- । / न्पदाति); written here with the word-end resolved (ससादीन् । पदाति), the line division kept. Same as CE 8.53.4.

Verse 8 (8.79.8)

कृपः शिखण्डी च रणे समेतौ । दुर्योधनं सात्यकिरध्यगच्छत् । श्रुतश्रवा द्रोणपुत्रेण सार्धं । युधामन्युश्चित्रसेनेन सार्धम् ॥

kṛpaḥ śikhaṇḍī ca raṇe sametau | duryodhanaṃ sātyakiradhyagacchat | śrutaśravā droṇaputreṇa sārdhaṃ | yudhāmanyuścitrasenena sārdham

Kripa and Shikhandi met in the battle; Satyaki went against Duryodhana; Shrutashrava met the son of Drona, and Yudhamanyu met Chitrasena.

Verse 9 (8.79.9)

कर्णस्य पुत्रं तु रथी सुषेणं । समागतं सृञ्जयश्चोत्तमौजाः । गान्धारराजं सहदेवोऽक्षधूर्तं । महर्षभं सिंह इवाभ्यधावत् ॥

karṇasya putraṃ tu rathī suṣeṇaṃ | samāgataṃ sṛñjayaścottamaujāḥ | gāndhārarājaṃ sahadevo'kṣadhūrtaṃ | maharṣabhaṃ siṃha ivābhyadhāvat

Uttamaujas, the Srinjaya chariot-warrior, met Karna's son Sushena who had come against him, and Sahadeva rushed at the king of Gandhara, the gambler at dice, as a lion rushes at a great bull.

Verse 10 (8.79.10)

शतानीको नाकुलिः कर्णपुत्रं । युवा युवानं वृषसेनं शरौघैः । समार्पयत्कर्णपुत्रश्च शूरः । पाञ्चालेयं शरवर्षैरनेकैः ॥

śatānīko nākuliḥ karṇaputraṃ | yuvā yuvānaṃ vṛṣasenaṃ śaraughaiḥ | samārpayatkarṇaputraśca śūraḥ | pāñcāleyaṃ śaravarṣairanekaiḥ

Shatanika, Nakula's son, a youth, struck the youthful Vrishasena, Karna's son, with floods of arrows; and Karna's son, the hero, struck Draupadi's son with many showers of arrows.

Note on the text: पाञ्चालेयम् is glossed on the page (8-79-10) as Panchali's (Draupadi's) son, Nakula's son; that is Shatanika himself.

Verse 11 (8.79.11)

रथर्षभः कृतवर्माणमार्च्छन् । माद्रीपुत्रो नकुलश्चित्रयोधी । पाञ्चालानामधिपो याज्ञसेनिः । सेनापतिः कर्णमार्च्छत्ससैन्यम् ॥

ratharṣabhaḥ kṛtavarmāṇamārcchan | mādrīputro nakulaścitrayodhī | pāñcālānāmadhipo yājñaseniḥ | senāpatiḥ karṇamārcchatsasainyam

Nakula, son of Madri, best of chariot-fighters and a marvellous warrior, engaged Kritavarma; and the lord of the Panchalas, the son of Yajnasena, the army's commander, engaged Karna together with his troops.

Note on the text: Corrected कृतवर्माणभार्च्छ-- → कृतवर्माणमार्च्छन् (misprint in Wikisource; भ for म; the CE reads kṛtavarmāṇam ārcchan). The page splits a sandhi across the line break (भार्च्छ-- । / न्माद्रीपुत्रो); written here with the word-end resolved (मार्च्छन् । माद्रीपुत्रो), the line division kept.

Verse 12 (8.79.12)

दुःशासनो भारत भारतं तु । व्यात्ताननं क्रूरमिवान्तकाभम् । भीमं रणे शस्त्रभृतां वरिष्ठं । भीमं समार्च्छत्तमसह्यवेगम् ॥

duḥśāsano bhārata bhārataṃ tu | vyāttānanaṃ krūramivāntakābham | bhīmaṃ raṇe śastrabhṛtāṃ variṣṭhaṃ | bhīmaṃ samārcchattamasahyavegam

O Bharata, Duhshasana attacked Bhima, that Bharata, gaping-mouthed and fierce, like Death himself, the foremost of weapon-bearers, terrible, of irresistible force.

Note on the text: Line 1 and lines 3–4 correspond to CE 8.53.9a and 9c (Wikisource भारतं तु for CE bhāratī ca; the CE's line 9a continues with saṃśaptakānāṃ pṛtanā samṛddhā, which Wikisource lacks; recension variants); line 2 व्यात्ताननं क्रूरमिवान्तकाभम् corresponds to the star passage 8.53.9d*0811_01. Wikisource's reading kept.

Verse 13 (8.79.13)

कर्णात्मजं तत्र जघान वीरः । तथाच्छिनच्चोत्तमौजाः प्रसह्य । तस्योत्तमाङ्गं निपपात भूमौ । निनादयद्गां निनदेन खं च ॥

karṇātmajaṃ tatra jaghāna vīraḥ | tathācchinaccottamaujāḥ prasahya | tasyottamāṅgaṃ nipapāta bhūmau | ninādayadgāṃ ninadena khaṃ ca

There the hero struck down Karna's son, and Uttamaujas forcibly cut off his head as well; it fell to the ground, making earth and sky resound with its noise.

Note on the text: The page splits a sandhi across the line break (वीर-- । / स्तथाच्छिनच्चो); written here with the word-end resolved (वीरः । तथाच्छिनच्चो), the line division kept. Same as CE 8.53.10 (Wikisource वीरः for CE śūraḥ, a recension variant).

Verse 14 (8.79.14)

सुषेणशीर्षं पतितं पृथिव्यां । विलोक्य कर्णोऽथ तदार्तरूपः । क्रोधाद्धयांस्तस्य रथं ध्वजं च । बाणैः सुधारैर्निशितैरकृन्तत् ॥

suṣeṇaśīrṣaṃ patitaṃ pṛthivyāṃ | vilokya karṇo'tha tadārtarūpaḥ | krodhāddhayāṃstasya rathaṃ dhvajaṃ ca | bāṇaiḥ sudhārairniśitairakṛntat

Seeing Sushena's head fallen on the earth, Karna was distressed, and in fury he cut down Uttamaujas's horses, chariot and banner with sharp, fine-edged arrows.

Verse 15 (8.79.15)

स तूत्तमौजा निशितैः पृषत्कैः । विव्याध खड्गेन च भास्वरेण । पार्ष्णिग्रहांश्चैव कृपस्य हत्वा । शिखण्डिवाहं स ततोऽध्यरोहत् ॥

sa tūttamaujā niśitaiḥ pṛṣatkaiḥ | vivyādha khaḍgena ca bhāsvareṇa | pārṣṇigrahāṃścaiva kṛpasya hatvā | śikhaṇḍivāhaṃ sa tato'dhyarohat

Then Uttamaujas struck with sharp arrows and a shining sword, killed Kripa's rear-guards, and climbed onto Shikhandi's chariot.

Note on the text: Corrected खङ्गेन → खड्गेन (misprint in Wikisource; ङ्ग for ड्ग; the CE reads khaḍgena). The page splits a sandhi across the line break (पृषत्कै-- । / र्विव्याध); written here with the word-end resolved (पृषत्कैः । विव्याध), the line division kept. Wikisource पार्ष्णिग्रहांश्चैव कृपस्य for CE pārṣṇiṃ hayāṃś caiva kṛpasya is a recension variant, kept.

Verse 16 (8.79.16)

कृपं तु दृष्ट्वा विरथं रथस्थो । नैच्छच्छरैस्ताडयितुं शिखण्डी । तं द्रौणिरावार्य रथं कृपस्य । समुज्जह्रे पङ्कगतां यथा गाम् ॥

kṛpaṃ tu dṛṣṭvā virathaṃ rathastho | naicchaccharaistāḍayituṃ śikhaṇḍī | taṃ drauṇirāvārya rathaṃ kṛpasya | samujjahre paṅkagatāṃ yathā gām

Seeing Kripa without a chariot, Shikhandi, though in his chariot, did not wish to strike him with arrows. The son of Drona held Shikhandi off and drew Kripa's chariot away, as one lifts a cow stuck in mud.

Note on the text: Corrected समुज्जहे → समुज्जह्रे (misprint in Wikisource; the conjunct ह्र is broken, leaving a form that is not the perfect of हृ; CE samujjahre).

Verse 17 (8.79.17)

हिरण्यवर्मा निशितैः पृषत्कैः । तवात्मजानामनिलात्मजो वै । अतापयत्सैन्यमतीव भीमः । काले शुचौ मध्यगतो यथाऽर्कः ॥

hiraṇyavarmā niśitaiḥ pṛṣatkaiḥ | tavātmajānāmanilātmajo vai | atāpayatsainyamatīva bhīmaḥ | kāle śucau madhyagato yathā'rkaḥ

Bhima, the son of the Wind, in golden armour, scorched your sons' army fiercely with sharp arrows, like the sun at its zenith in the hot season.

Note on the text: The page splits a sandhi across the line break (पृषत्कै-- । / स्तवात्मजानाम्); written here with the word-end resolved (पृषत्कैः । तवात्मजानाम्), the line division kept. Same as CE 8.53.14. The page's closing colophon is not a verse.