Shalya Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

तलवारकी मुट्ठी भी काट डाली

English

"Sanjaya said, 'Then commenced the battle between the Kurus and the Srinjayas, O monarch, that was as fierce and awful as the battle between the gods and the Asuras. Men and crowds of cars and elephants, and elephant-warriors and horsemen by thousands, and steeds, all possessed of great prowess, encountered one another. The loud noise of rushing elephants of fearful forms was then heard there resembling the roars of the clouds in the welkin, in the season of rains. Some car-warriors, struck by elephants, were deprived of their cars. Routed by those infuriate animals other brave combatants ran on the field. Well-trained car-warriors, O Bharata, with their shafts, despatched large bodies of cavalry and the footmen that urged and protected the elephants, to the other world. Well-trained horsemen, O king, surrounding great car- warriors, careered on the field, striking and slaying the latter with spears and darts and swords. Some combatants armed with bows, encompassing great car-warriors, despatched them to Yama's abode, the many unitedly battling against individual ones. Other great car-warriors, encompassing elephants and foremost warriors of their own class, slew some mighty one amongst that fought on the field, careering all around. Similarly, O king, elephants, encompassing individual car- warriors excited with wrath and scattering showers of shafts, despatched them to the other world. Elephant-warrior rushing against elephant-warrior and car-warrior against car-warrior in that battle slew each other with darts and lances and cloth-yard shafts, O Bharata. Cars and elephants and horses, crushing foot-soldiers in the midst of battle, were seen to make confusion worse confounded. Adorned with yak-tails, steeds rushed on all sides, looking like the swans found on the plains at the foot of Himavat. They rushed with such speed that they seemed ready to devour the very Earth. The field, O monarch, indented with the hoofs of those steeds, looked beautiful like a beautiful woman bearing the marks of (her lover's) nails on her person. With the noise made by the tread of heroes, the wheels of cars, the shouts of foot-soldiers, the grunts of elephants, the peal of drums and other musical instruments, and the blare of conchs, the Earth began to resound as if with deafening peals of thunder. In consequence of twanging bows and flashing sabres and the glaring armour of the combatants, all became so confused there, that nothing could be distinctly marked. Invulnerable arms, lopped off from human bodies, and looking like the tusks of elephants, jumped up and writhed and moved furiously about. The sound made, O monarch, by heads falling on the field of battle, resembled that made by the falling fruits of palmyra trees. Strewn with those fallen heads that were crimson with blood, the Earth looked resplendent as if adorned with gold-coloured lotuses in their season. Indeed, with those lifeless heads with upturned eyes, that were exceedingly mangled (with shafts and other weapons), the field of battle, O king, looked resplendent as if strewn with full blown lotuses. With the fallen arms of the combatants, smeared with sandal and adorned with costly Keyuras, the earth looked bright as if strewn with the gorgeous poles set up in Indra's honour. The field of battle became covered with the thighs of kings, cut off in that battle and looking like the tapering trunks of elephants. Teeming with hundreds of headless trunk and strewn with umbrellas and yak-tails, that vast army looked beautiful like a flowering forest. Then, on the field of battle, O monarch, warriors careered fearlessly, their limbs bathed in blood and therefore looking like flowering Kinsukas. Elephants also, afflicted with arrows and lances, fell down

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिवो युगान्ते महतीमिवोल्काम्

English

The earth was covered with his thousands of arrows, and he drenched the enemy with arrows like streams on mountains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रौज्चो यथा स्कन्दहतो महाद्रि:

English

There was no man among the Pandavas in that great battle, nor horse, elephant or chariot, that was not wounded by his arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः शल्ये निपतिते मद्रराजानुजो युवा

English

Whatever warrior I saw in the battle, O lord of men, was covered with arrows by your son, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्यापकृत्तशीर्ष तु शरीरं पतितं रथात्

English

As the army was seen covered with dust raised by troops, so it was covered with arrows by the great soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नीचे गिर पड़ा। उसे देखकर आपकी सेनामें भगदड़ मच गयी

English

We saw the earth made a mass of arrows, O lord of the earth, by Duryodhana, the quick-handed bowman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शल्यानुजं हतं दृष्टवा तावकास्त्यक्तजीविता:

English

Among those thousands of warriors of yours and the enemy, Duryodhana alone was a man, I thought.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तांस्तथा भज्यमानांस्तु कौरवान् भरतर्षभ

English

There we saw your son's marvellous valour, that the Parthas together could not pass him alone, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिनिपौत्र सात्यकि उनका पीछा करने लगे

English

He pierced Yudhishthira with a hundred in the battle, O best of the Bharatas, Bhimasena with seventy and Sahadeva with seven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शड्खांश्व दध्मु: शशिसंनिकाशान्

English

Nakula with sixty-four, Dhrishtadyumna with five, the sons of Draupadi with seven, and pierced Satyaki; he cut Sahadeva's bow with a broad-headed arrow, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विसंज्ञकल्पं च तदा विषण्णम्

English

Casting aside the cut bow, the glorious son of Madri rushed at the king with another great bow, and in the battle pierced Duryodhana with ten arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वह खूनसे लथपथ हो अज्ञात दिशाओंकी ओर भागने लगी

English

Nakula too, the hero, mighty archer, pierced the king with nine dreadful arrows and roared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सिंहो यथा मृगहेतो: प्रयात:

English

Satyaki also pierced the king with a straight-jointed arrow, the sons of Draupadi with seventy-three, the king of dharma with seven, and Bhimasena tormented the king with eighty arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पकड़नेके लिये झपटा हो

English

Though covered on every side with masses of arrows by the great souls, he did not stir, O great king, in the sight of the whole army.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथे तिष्ठन् शक्तिमेवा भ्यकाड्क्षत्

English

All men saw the dexterity, the skill and the valour of the great soul exceed all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मद्राधिपं क्रुद्धमना निरैक्षत्

English

Dhritarashtra's men, O king of kings, having gone a short distance and not seeing the king, turned back, armoured.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्तदद्भुतं मे प्रतिभाति राजन्

English

As they rushed, a dreadful, tumultuous noise arose, like that of the troubled ocean at night in the rainy season.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मद्राधिपाय प्रवर: कुरूणाम्

English

Reaching the unconquered king in the battle, those mighty archers advanced on the Pandavas, the aggressors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मद्रराज शल्यके ऊपर बड़े वेगसे चलाया

English

Drona's son held back enraged Bhimasena in the battle. Then with arrows loosed in all directions, O great king, heroes in the battle did not know the quarters or intermediate quarters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उल्काके समान सहसा शल्यपर गिरती देखा

English

Those two of cruel deeds, both hard to bear, O Bharata, fought dreadfully, each wishing to repay the other, terrifying the whole world, their skin cut by the bowstring's snap.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युद्धमें उसका प्रयोग किया था

English

Shakuni, the hero in battle, tormented Yudhishthira; having killed his four horses, Subala's son, the lord, strong, roared, making all the armies tremble.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भयंकर जान पड़ती थी

English

In the meantime the valiant Sahadeva carried away in his chariot from the battle the hero, the unconquered king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसहा भूतानि निहन्तुमीशाम्

English

Then, mounting another chariot, the king of dharma Yudhishthira, piercing Shakuni with nine and again with five, roared a great roar, best of all bowmen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकाश आदियमें रहनेवाले प्राणियोंको भी बलपूर्वक मार डालनेमें समर्थ थी

English

That battle was wondrous and dreadful, O revered one, giving delight to the spectators and attended by siddhas and charanas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मद्विषामन्तकरीममोघाम्

English

Uluka, of immeasurable spirit, rushed on all sides with showers of arrows at the mighty archer Nakula, arrogant in battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रोधेन नृत्यन्निव धर्मराज:

English

So too the brave Nakula in the battle covered Subala's son's son with a great shower of arrows on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शल्यपर चला दी और गरजते हुए कहा--'ओ पापी! तू मारा गया”

English

Those two heroes there in the battle, sons of noble families, great chariot-warriors, fighting each other, saw each other as having done wrong to one another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्यग्घुतामग्निरिवाज्यधाराम्

English

Likewise Kritavarman, fighting Shaineya, scorcher of foes, shone, O king, like Shakra in battle with an army.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अग्निदेव प्रज्वलित हो उठे हों

English

Duryodhana, cutting Dhrishtadyumna's bow in the battle, then pierced him, bowless, with sharp arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

खूनसे शल्यका सारा शरीर नहा गया

English

Dhrishtadyumna too in the battle, taking a supreme weapon, fought the king in the sight of all bowmen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो निपतितो भूमाविन्द्रध्वज इवोच्छित:

English

A great battle took place between them, O best of the Bharatas, like two rutting great elephants locked together.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रध्वजके समान धराशायी हो गये

English

Gautama (Kripa), enraged in the battle, the hero, pierced the mighty sons of Draupadi with many straight-jointed arrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्युदूगत इव प्रेम्णा भूम्या स नरपुज्भव:

English

His battle with them was like that of the embodied with the senses, dreadful, irresistible and utterly without restraint.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिरं भुक्त्वा वसुमतीं प्रियां कान्तामिव प्रभु:

English

They tormented him as the senses a fool; and he, enraged, fought them back in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शल्य मानो अपने सम्पूर्ण अंगोंस उसका आलिंगन करके सो गये थे

English

Thus wondrous was his battle with them, O Bharata, as the embodied rising again and again against their senses, lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शकक्‍्त्या विभिन्नह्नदयं विप्रविद्धायुधध्वजम्

English

Men fought with men, elephants with elephants, horses with horses, chariot-warriors with chariot-warriors, and the confusion became yet more dreadful, O lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

(शोभा या कान्ति) छोड़ नहीं रही थी

English

"This is wondrous, this dreadful, this fierce," O lord—many dreadful battles took place, O great king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो युधिष्ठिरश्नापमादायेन्द्रधनुष्प्रभम्

English

Meeting each other in the battle, the tamers of foes pierced and slew one another in the great fight.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देहान् सुनिशितैर्भल्लै रिपूर्णां नाशयन् क्षणात्

English

The fierce dust raised by them was seen, driven by the wind, O king, and by horsemen running.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विव्याध च नरश्रेष्ठो नाराचैर्बहुभिस्त्वरन्

English

Raised by wheel-rims and the breath of elephants, the dust, tawny like the evening cloud, rose to the sun's path.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ विव्याधाशुगै: षड्भिर्धर्मराजस्त्वरन्निव

English

With the sun joined with that dust and dimmed, the earth and those brave great chariot-warriors were covered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततोस्य दीप्यमानेन सुदृढेन शितेन च

English

In a moment all became free of dust on every side; on the ground drenched with the blood of heroes, O best of the Bharatas, that dreadful-looking fierce dust subsided.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सकुण्डलं तद् ददृशे पतमानं शिरो रथात्

English

Then I saw, O great king, duels, O Bharata, each best to best, eldest to eldest, in the very terrible noon; the bright lustre of armour was seen there, O king of kings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुण्डलसहित मस्तक रथसे भूतलपर गिरता देखा गया

English

A very tumultuous sound of falling arrows arose in the battle, like that of a great bamboo grove burning on every side.