Karna Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

ताभ्यां वियति राजेन्द्र विततं भीमदर्शनम्

English

pierced Arjuna and the other five pierced Vasudeva. Struck with those arrows, those two foremost of men, like Kuvera and Indra, became bathed in blood. Thus afflicted, all the people there regarded those two heroes as slain by Ashvatthama the warrior who had completely mastered the science of arms. Then the chief of the Dasharhas addressed Arjuna and said, "Why errest thou in thus sparing Ashvatthama? Slay this warrior. If treated with indifference, even this one will be the cause of great woe, like a disease not sought to be put down by treatment." Replying unto Keshava of unfading glory with the words "So be it!" Arjuna of unclouded understanding began with good care to mangle the son of Drona with his shafts. Now the son of Pandu, filled with rage, quickly pierced the massive arms, smeared with sandal- paste, and the chest, the head, and the unrivalled thighs of his antagonist with shafts equipped with heads like goats' ears, and shot with great force from gandiva. Then cutting off the traces of Ashvatthama' s steeds, Arjuna began to pierce the steeds themselves, whereat the latter bore Ashvatthama away to a great distance from the field. Thus borne away by these steeds endued with the speed of the wind, the intelligent son of Drona, deeply afflicted with the shafts of Partha, reflecting for some time, wished not to go back and renew the fight with Partha. Knowing that victory is ever with the chief of the Vrishnis and with Dhananjaya, that foremost one of Angirasa's race, endued with great activity, entered the army of Kama, deprived of hope and with shafts and weapons almost exhausted. Indeed, Drona' s son, restraining his steeds, and having comforted himself a little, O sire, entered the force of Kama, teeming with cars and steeds and men. After Ashvatthama, that enemy of theirs, had been thus removed from the field by his steeds like a disease removed from the body by incantations and medicines and means, Keshava and Arjuna proceeded towards the samsaptakas, on their car whose rattle resembled the roar of the clouds and whose banner waved on the wind. ' "

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततक्षु: सायकैस्तीणैर्निघ्नन्तो हि परस्परम् इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे एकपञ्चाशत्तमोडध्याय:

English

Masses of chariots, masses of horses, masses of men and masses of elephants, O great king, clashed with one another on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विनेशु: समरे तस्मिन् पक्षवन्त इवाद्रय:

English

We saw the falling in that most dreadful battle of maces, iron clubs, kanapas, lances, bhindipalas and bhushundis on every side,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नदी: प्रवर्तयामासु: शोणितौघविवर्धिनी: घोर एवं भयंकर नदियोंको वहाँ योद्धाओंने प्रवाहित किया था

English

and showers of arrows fell on every side like locusts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणियोंको यमलोक पहुँचाती थीं क्रव्यादानां नरव्याप्र नर्दतां तत्र तत्र ह

English

Elephants, reaching elephants, struck each other down; horses horses in the battle, chariot-warriors chariot-warriors; foot-soldiers with bands of foot-soldiers, horses with bands of horses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्थितान्यगणेयानि कबन्धानि समन्ततः

English

Foot-soldiers crushed chariots and elephants, chariots horses and elephants, and elephants in the battle swiftly crushed the rest, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धावमाना: सम दृश्यन्ते काकगृध्रबकास्तथा योधव्रतसमाख्याताश्षक्रुः कर्माण्यभीतवत्

English

With the fall of heroes there and their crying out to one another, the dreadful battlefield became like a slaughter of animals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितृनामानि च रणे गोत्रनामानि वा विभो

English

The earth, covered with blood, shone, O Bharata, like the earth in the rains strewn with Indra's cochineal insects.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्योन्यमवमृद्नन्त: शक्तितोमरपट्टिशै: व्यषीदत् कौरवी सेना भिन्ना नौरिव सागरे

English

As a young woman might wear two white garments dyed with a great red dye, so the earth became, as if painted with flesh and blood and as if made of gold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृष्ठभागके समान लाल और भयानक दिखायी देता था नैव सूर्यप्रभा राजन् न दिश: प्रदिशस्तथा

English

Of severed heads, of arms together with thighs, of hurled earrings and ornaments, O Bharata,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मध्याह्ले तपतो राजन् भास्करस्य महाप्रभा:

English

of necklaces, belts, the bodies of archers, armour with banners, heaps fell on the ground there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सौबलं कृतवर्माणं द्रौणिमाधिरथ्थिं कृपम् तेषामापततां शब्दस्तीव्र आसीद् विशाम्पते

English

Elephants, meeting elephants, tore them with the tips of their tusks, and struck by tusks they shone like wounded elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए समुद्रोंकी भयानक गर्जना हो रही हो

English

With their limbs drenched in blood like mountains streaming red ochre, they shone, mountains adorned with minerals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते सेने भृशसंसक्ते दृष्टवान्योन्यं महाहवे और उत्साहके साथ युद्ध करने लगीं

English

Javelins hurled by elephants at enemies who stood facing them, the elephants wandered about with their trunks and others broke.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलौघस्तु समासाद्य बलौघं सहसा रणे

English

With their armour split by iron arrows, the best elephants shone, O great king, like cloud-covered mountains at the onset of winter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसीज्निनाद: सुमहान् बाणौघानां परस्परम् ते तु सेने समासाद्य वेगवत्यौ परस्परम्

English

The best elephants, covered with golden-feathered arrows, shone like mountains with blazing tops of meteors, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परस्पर मिलकर एकीभावको प्राप्त हो गयीं

English

Some elephants, struck by elephants, fell like mountains to the ground in that battle, like winged mountains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्य यद्धि रणे व्यडूं पितृतो मातृतोडपि वा तान् दृष्टवा समरे शूरांस्तर्जमानान् परस्परम्

English

Other elephants, tormented by arrows and wounds, ran off, and fell to the ground in the great battle, with their temples and tusk-rings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां दृष्टवा तु क्रुद्धानां वपूंष्यमिततेजसाम्

English

Others sank down like lions, roaring terrible roars, and many, O king, grew faint and others cried out.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्योन्यं समरे जघ्नु: कृतवैरा: परस्परम्

English

Horses killed by Baka warriors, with golden ornaments and coverings, sank down, grew faint and wandered in all ten directions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रखकर समरांगणमें एक-दूसरेको मारने लगे गजौघाश्न महाराज संसक्ताश्न परस्परम्

English

Others, being dragged and writhing on the ground, struck by arrows and javelins, made various gestures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रासानां भिन्दिपालानां भुशुण्डीनां च सर्वश:

English

Men lay slain on the ground, crying out there, O revered one; others, seeing kinsmen, fathers or grandfathers,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शलभा इव सम्पेतु: समन्ताच्छरवृष्टय: हया हयांश्व समरे रथिनो रथिनस्तथा

English

and others running, O Bharata, proclaimed their famous clan names to one another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पत्तयो रथमातड्जन् रथा हस्त्यश्वमेव च

English

Their severed arms, adorned with gold, O great king, writhed, twisted, fell and leapt up.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वध्यतां तत्र शूराणां क्रोशतां च परस्परम् यथा वा वाससी शुक्ले महार०ञण्जनरजञ्जिते

English

They fell on the ground and twitched by thousands, and some made rapid movements in the battle like quivering snakes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मांसशोणितचित्रेव शातकुम्भमयीव च

English

Those arms, like serpents' coils, anointed with sandal, O lord of men, drenched in blood, shone greatly like golden banners.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुण्डलानां प्रवृद्धानां भूषणानां च भारत यथा भ्राजन्ति स्यन्दन्त: पर्वता धातुमण्डिता:

English

While the dreadful confusion went on in every direction, unrecognised they fought, striking one another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हस्तैर्विचेरुस्ते नागा बभज्जुश्वापरे तथा

English

Covered with earth-dust and crowded with falling weapons, neither their own nor the enemy, O king, were recognised in the darkness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हिमागमे यथा राजन व्यभ्रा इव महीधरा: उल्काओंद्वारा उद्दीप्त शिखरोंवाले पर्वतोंके समान शोभा पा रहे थे

English

Thus that dreadful, terrible battle went on, and great rivers of blood flowed there again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पंखधारी शैलसमूहोंके समान नष्ट हो गये प्रतिमानैश् कुम्भैश्न पेतुरुर्व्या महाहवे

English

Covered with heads and stones, with hair for moss and grass, filled with heaps of bones, with bows and the best of arrows,

हिन्दी अर्थ

बश्रमुर्बहवो राजं॑श्रुक्तुशुश्चापरे गजा:

English

with mud of flesh and floods of blood, most dreadful, they made rivers flow that increased the realm of Yama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरे बहुतेरे हाथी इधर-उधर चक्कर काटते और चीखते-चिल्लाते थे निषेदुश्चैव मम्लुश्न बश्रमुश्न दिशो दश

English

Those dreadful rivers, carrying men to Yama's abode, plunging and drowning them, struck fear into the kshatriyas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भावान् बहुविधांश्वक्रुस्ताडिता: शरतोमरै:

English

With flesh-eaters roaring here and there, O tiger among men, the dreadful battlefield became like the city of the king of the dead.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृष्टवा च बान्धवानन्ये पितृनन्ये पितामहान् गोत्रनामानि ख्यातानि शशंसुरितरेतरम्

English

Innumerable headless trunks rose on every side, and hosts of spirits danced, satisfied with flesh and blood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसिद्ध नाम और गोत्र बताने लगते थे

English

Having drunk blood and fat, O Bharata, fed on marrow, fat and flesh, crows, vultures and herons were seen running.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उद्वेष्टन्ते विचेष्टन्ते पतन्ते चोत्पतन्ति च वेगांश्ान्ये रणे चक्र: पञ्चास्या इव पन्नगा:

English

Those heroes in battle, O king, giving up fear, which is hard to give up, did their deeds fearlessly, true to a warrior's vow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोहितार्द्रा भृशं रेजुस्तपनीय ध्वजा इव

English

In the field strewn with arrows and darts and thronged by flesh-eaters, brave heroes ranged in bands, proclaiming their own manliness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविज्ञाता: सम युध्यन्ते विनिध्नन्त: परस्परम् नैव स्वे न परे राजन् व्यज्ञायन्त तमोवृता:

English

They announced to one another their names and clans, and the names of their fathers and clans, in the battle, O Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोहितोदा महानद्य: प्रसख्नुस्तत्र चासकृत्

English

Many warriors there, proclaiming, crushed one another with darts, javelins and pattishas, O lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ता नद्यो घोररूपास्तु नयन्त्यो यमसादनम्

English

While that dreadful, most terrible battle went on, the Kaurava army sank, like a broken ship in the sea.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समान कौरव-सेना छिन्न-भिन्न हो गयी और विषाद करने लगी

English

"Sanjaya said, 'Meanwhile towards the northern part of the Pandava army, a loud uproar arose of cars and elephants and steeds and foot-soldiers as those were being massacred by Dandadhara. Turning the course of the car, but without stopping the steeds which were as fleet as Garuda or the wind, Keshava, addressing Arjuna, said, "The chief of the Magadhas, with his (foe-crushing) elephant is unrivalled in prowess. In training and might he is not inferior to Bhagadatta himself. Having slain him first, thou wilt then slay the samsaptakas. " At the conclusion of his words, Keshava bore Partha to the presence of Dandadhara. The chief of the Magadhas, peerless in handling the elephant-hook even as the headless planet Ketu (is peerless) among all the planets, was destroying the hostile army like a fierce comet destroying the whole earth. Riding on his foe-slaying and well-equipped elephant which looked like the danava with elephantine face and form, and whose roar resembled that of a congregated mass of clouds, Dandadhara was destroying with his shafts thousands of cars and steeds and elephants and men. The elephants also, treading upon cars with their feet, pressed down into the Earth a large number of men with their steeds and drivers. Many were the elephants, also, which that foremost of elephants, crushed and slew with his two forefeet and trunk. Indeed, the beast moved like the wheel of Death. Slaying men adorned with steel coats of mail, along with their horses and foot-soldiers, the chief of the Magadhas caused these to be pressed down into the earth, like thick reeds pressed down with crackling sounds, by means of that mighty and foremost of elephants belonging to him. Then Arjuna, riding on that foremost of cars, rushed quickly towards that prince of elephants in the midst of that host teeming with thousands of cars and steeds and elephants, and resounding with the beat and blare of innumerable cymbals and drums and conchs and uproarious with the clatter of car-wheels, the twang of bow-strings, and the sound of palms. Even Dandadhara pierced Arjuna with a dozen foremost of shafts and Janardana with sixteen and each of the steeds with three, and then uttered a loud shout and laughed repeatedly. Then Partha, with a number of broad-headed shafts, cut off the bow of his antagonist with its string and arrow fixed thereon, as also his well-decked standard, and then the guides of his beast and the footmen that protected the animal. At this, the lord of Girivraja became filled with rage. Desirous of agitating Janardana with that tusker of his, whose temples had split from excitement, and which resembled a mass of clouds and was endued with the speed of the wind, Dandadhara struck Dhananjaya with many lances. The son of Pandu then, with three razor-headed arrows, cut off, almost at the same instant of time, the two arms each looking like the trunk of an elephant, and then the head, resembling the full Moon, of his foe. Then Arjuna struck the elephant of this antagonist with hundreds of arrows. Covered with the gold-decked arrows of Partha, that elephant equipped with golden armour looked as resplendent as a mountain in the night with its herbs and trees blazing in a conflagration. Afflicted with the pain and roaring like a mass of clouds, and exceedingly weakened, the elephant crying and wandering and running with tottering steps, fell down with the guide on its neck, like a mountain summit riven by thunder. Upon the fall of his brother in battle, Danda advanced against Indra's younger brother and Dhananjaya, desirous of slaying them, on his tusker white as snow and adorned with gold and looking like a Himalayan summit. Danda struck Janardana with three whetted lances bright as the rays of the sun, and Arjuna with five, and

हिन्दी अर्थ

निगृहा तं रथं तस्य योधास्ते तु सहस्रश: अपरे जगहुश्वैव केशवस्य महाभुजी

English

Where the Pandava slaughtered the Samshaptakas, and likewise the Kosalas and the Narayana force, O king—

हिन्दी अर्थ

भारी अस्त्र-वृष्टिका निवारण करके उन योद्धाओंका संहार आरम्भ कर दिया

English

the Samshaptakas, eager for victory and in great rage, rained a shower of arrows on Partha's head from every side in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और शूरवीरोंका हर्ष बढ़ानेवाला था

English

The lord swiftly bore that shower, O king, and entered the battle, slaying, best of chariot-warriors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृंजयोंको आच्छादित कर दिया शिखण्डिनं रणे क्रुद्धो विव्याध दशभि: शरै:

English

Having checked the chariot-force with stone-whetted heron-feathered arrows, Partha reached the great chariot-warrior Susharma in the battle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृपं विव्याध कुपितं कड्कपत्रैरजिह्यगैः

English

The best of chariot-warriors rained showers of arrows on him, and the Samshaptakas too stood in the battle against Partha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारथि एवं रथसे रहित कर दिया खडगं चर्म तथा गृहा सत्वरं ब्राह्म॒णं ययौ

English

Then Susharma, piercing Partha with nine swift arrows and Janardana with three, struck him on the right arm, and with another broad-headed arrow pierced the standard, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चैष्टस्तद् रणे राजन् शिखण्डी समतिष्ठत

English

That excellent monkey, the great one made by Vishvakarma, uttered a great cry, frightening, and roared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्युद्ययौ कृप॑ तूर्ण धृष्टद्युम्नो महारथ: तुरंत ही उनका सामना करनेके लिये आये

English

Hearing the monkey's roar, your army, terrified, took on great fear and became motionless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे द्विपञ्चाशत्तमो5ध्याय: गाण्डीवस्य महाघोष: श्रूयते युधि मारिष

English

Then that army shone, standing motionless, O king, like the Chaitraratha forest strewn with flowers of many kinds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारायणी-सेनाका संहार कर रहे थे

English

Regaining consciousness, the warriors, best of the Kurus, showered Arjuna with arrows as clouds on a mountain, and all surrounded the Pandava's great chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपातयन् पार्थमूर्थश्नि जयगृद्धा: प्रमन्‍्यव: मस्तकपर चारों ओरसे बाणोंकी वर्षा आरम्भ कर दी

English

They quickly held the horses, wheels and poles of the chariot by force, O Bharata, and roared lion-roars.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यगाहत रणे पार्थो विनिघ्नन् रथिनां वरान्

English

Others seized Keshava's mighty arms, and others, O great king, joyfully seized Partha on his chariot.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्तिशाली अर्जुन रणभूमिमें विचरने लगे आससाद ततः पार्थ: सुशर्माणं वरायुधम्

English

Then Keshava, shaking his arms at the head of the battle, threw them all down like a vicious elephant its fellow elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा संशप्तकाश्रैव पार्थ बाणै: समार्पयन्

English

Then Partha, enraged in battle and surrounded by those great chariot-warriors, seeing his chariot held and Keshava attacked, felled many chariot-borne and foot-soldiers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स वानरवरो राजन् विश्वकर्मकृतो महान् कपेस्तु निनदं श्रुत्वा संत्रस्ता तव वाहिनी

English

He dislodged the warriors who stood close with arrows in the battle by close fighters, and said this to Keshava:

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः सा शुशुभे सेना निश्चेष्ठावस्थिता नूप

English

"See, Krishna, mighty-armed, the Samshaptaka hosts doing dreadful deeds and being slain by me in thousands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चैत्ररथ नामक वनके समान शोभा पाने लगी परिवद्रुस्तत: सर्वे पाण्डवस्य महारथम्

English

This dreadful binding of the chariot—there is no one on earth, O bull of the Yadus, who could bear it other than I."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते हयान् रथचक्रे च रथेषां चापि मारिष

English

Having said this, Bibhatsu blew Devadatta, and Krishna too blew Panchajanya, as if filling heaven and earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथपर बैठे हुए अर्जुनको भी प्रसन्नतापूर्वक पकड़ लिया

English

Hearing that conch-sound, the Samshaptaka host trembled, O great king, and was greatly terrified.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केशवस्तु ततो बाहू विधुन्चन् रणमूर्थनि रथारूढांस्तु सुबहून् पदातींश्वाप्पपातयत्

English

Then the Pandava, slayer of heroes, O great king, repeatedly invoking the Naga weapon, made the foot-binding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छादयामास समरे केशवं चेदमब्रवीत्

English

Those at whom Partha aimed the foot-binding in the battle were bound by the foot-binding of the great-souled Pandava and became motionless, O king, as if made of stone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यः सहेत पुमॉल्लोके मदन्यो यदुपुड्भव भयानक रथबन्ध (रथकी पकड़ अथवा रथोंके घेरे)-का सामना कर सके”

English

The son of Pandu then slew the motionless warriors, as the moon in battle slew the daityas at the slaying of Taraka long ago.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और आकाशको गुँजाते हुए-से पांचजन्य नामक शंखकी ध्वनि फैलायी

English

Being slain in the battle, they released that excellent chariot and began to cast away all their weapons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जोर-जोरसे भागने लगी निश्चेशश्चाभवन् राजन्नश्मसारमया इव

English

Then, O king of kings, seeing his army seized, Susharma, the great chariot-warrior, swiftly brought forth the Suparna weapon.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथेन्द्र: समरे हैत्यांस्तारकस्य वधे पुरा

English

Then Suparnas (Garudas) fell upon them, devouring serpents, and the serpents fled on seeing those sky-ranging birds, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आयुधानि च सर्वाणि विस्रष्टमुपचक्रमु: गाँठवाले बाणोंद्वारा उनका वध करने लगे

English

That army, freed from the foot-binding, O lord of men, shone like the sun freed from a mass of clouds, scorching creatures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यानुद्दिश्य रणे पार्थ: पादबन्धं चकार ह

English

Freed, those warriors poured masses of arrows and masses of weapons on Phalguna's chariot, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पक्षियोंको प्रकट हुआ देख वे सारे नाग भाग चले तां महास्त्रमयीं वृष्टिं संछिद्य शरवृष्टिभि:

English

Cutting that rain of great weapons with showers of arrows, the son of Vasava, slayer of heroes, stood facing the warriors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुशर्मा तु ततो राजन् बाणेनानतपर्वणा पहुँचाकर अन्य तीन बाणोंद्वारा भी उन्हें घायल कर दिया

English

Then Susharma, O king, with a bent-jointed arrow, pierced Arjuna in the heart and with three more arrows; deeply pierced, he sat down on his chariot-seat, pained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स गाढविद्धो व्यथितो रथोपस्थ उपाविशत्

English

Regaining consciousness, the white-horsed one with Krishna as charioteer, of immeasurable spirit, swiftly brought forth Indra's weapon; then thousands of arrows were produced, O revered one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिलभ्य तत: संज्ञां श्वेताश्वः कृष्णसारथि: संशप्तकगणानां च गोपालानां च भारत

English

They were seen in all directions, killing elephants, horses and chariots in battle, O king, with weapons by the hundred thousand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यतां तत्र वीराणामहन्यत बल॑ तव

English

As the army was being slain, great fear entered the Samshaptaka hosts and the Gopalas, O Bharata; there was no man there who fought Arjuna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वीरोंके देखते-देखते आपकी सेनाका वध होने लगा अयुतं तत्र योधानां हत्वा पाण्डुसुतो रणे

English

In the sight of heroes there, the great army was slain; they saw it being slain and stood motionless in their valour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चतुर्दश सहस्राणि यानि शिष्टानि भारत

English

Having slain ten thousand warriors there in battle, the son of Pandu shone in battle, O king, like a smokeless blazing fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः संशप्तका भूय: परिवद्रर्थनंजयम् शूरेण बलिना सार्ध पाण्डवेन किरीटिना

English

Fourteen thousand remained, O Bharata, and ten thousand chariots and three thousand elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे त्रिपठचाशत्तमो5ध्याय:

English

Then the Samshaptakas surrounded Dhananjaya again, resolved to die or to win.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समुज्जहु: सम वेगेन भिन्नां नावमिवार्णवे भीरूणां त्रासजननं शूराणां हर्षवर्धनम्

English

A great battle took place there, O lord of men, between your men and the strong hero, the Pandava Kiritin.