Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 7.50
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7.50.1
वयं तु प्रवरं हत्वा तेषां तैः शरपीडिताः ।
निवेशायाभ्युपायामः सायाह्ने रुधिरोक्षिताः ॥ ७.५०.१ ॥
Having slain their foremost warrior, we, afflicted by arrows and sprinkled with blood, turned back toward the camp in the evening.
7.50.2
निरीक्षमाणास्तु वयं परे चायोधनं शनैः ।
अपयाता महाराज ग्लानिं प्राप्ता विचेतसः ॥ ७.५०.२ ॥
O great king, we and the others, looking back at the battlefield, slowly withdrew, reaching weariness and bewilderment.
7.50.3
ततो निशाया दिवसस्य चाशिवः ।
शिवारुतैः सन्धिरवर्तताद्भुतः।
कुशेशयापीडनिभे दिवाकरे ।
विलम्बमानेऽस्तमुपेत्य पर्वतम् ॥ ७.५०.३ ॥
Then, at the junction of night and day, amid the inauspicious howls of jackals, a strange twilight came, as the sun, like a garland of lotuses, hung low and reached the western mountain.
7.50.4
वरासिशक्त्यृष्टिवरूथचर्मणां ।
विभूषणानां च समाक्षिपन्प्रभाः।
दिवं च भूमिं च समानयन्निव ।
प्रियां तनुं भानुरुपैति पावकम् ॥ ७.५०.४ ॥
Scattering the gleam of the fine swords, spears, lances, shields, leather armour and ornaments, as if joining sky and earth, the sun went to fire, its beloved body given over.
7.50.5
महाभ्रकूटाचलशृङ्गसन्निभै… ।
र्गजैरनेकैरिव वज्रपातितैः।
सवैजयन्त्यङ्कुशवर्मयन्तृभि… ।
र्निपातितैर्नष्टगतिश्चिता क्षितिः ॥ ७.५०.५ ॥
Many elephants, like peaks of great cloud-mountains, felled as though by thunderbolts, lay fallen with banners, goads, armour and riders, and the earth, its movement lost, was covered with them.
7.50.6
हतेश्वरैश्चूर्णितचक्रकूबरै… ।
र्हताश्वसूतैर्विपताककेतुभिः।
महारथैर्भूः शुशुभे विचूर्णितैः ।
पुरैरिवामित्रहतैर्नराधिप ॥ ७.५०.६ ॥
O lord of men, like cities destroyed by enemies, the earth shone, crushed by great chariot-warriors whose leaders were slain, whose wheels and chariot-poles were shattered, whose horses and drivers were killed, whose banners and standards had fallen.
7.50.7
रथाश्वबृन्दैः सहसादिभिर्हतैः ।
प्रविद्धभाण्डाभरणैः पृथग्विधैः।
निरस्तजिह्वादशनान्त्रलोचनै… ।
र्धरा बभौ घोरविरूपदर्शना ॥ ७.५०.७ ॥
With throngs of chariots and horses, and swordsmen and others, slain; with vessels and ornaments of many kinds scattered; with tongues, teeth, entrails and eyes thrown out … the earth appeared terrible and hideous to behold.
7.50.8
प्रविद्धवर्माभणाम्बरायुधा ।
विपन्नहस्त्यश्वरथानुगा नराः।
महार्हशय्यास्तरणोचितास्तदा ।
क्षितावनाथा इव शेरते हताः ॥ ७.५०.८ ॥
With armour, ornaments, garments and weapons cast aside, and elephants, horses, chariots and their followers destroyed, the men who then were fit for costly beds and coverings lie slain on the ground, like the unprotected.
7.50.9
अतीव हृष्टाः श्वशृगालवायसा ।
बकाः सुपर्णाश्च वृकास्तरक्षवः।
वयांस्यसृक्पान्यथ रक्षसां गणाः ।
पिशाचसङ्घाश्च सुदारुणा रणे ॥ ७.५०.९ ॥
Dogs, jackals and crows were exceedingly glad; herons, eagles, wolves, hyenas, birds that drink blood, hosts of rākṣasas and the very dreadful throngs of piśācas rejoiced in the battle.
7.50.10
त्वचो विनिर्भिद्य पिबन्वसामसृक् ।
तथैव मज्जाः पिशितानि चाश्नुवन्।
वपां विलुम्पन्ति हसन्ति गान्ति च ।
प्रकर्षमाणाः कुणपान्यनेकशः ॥ ७.५०.१० ॥
Tearing open the skin, drinking fat and blood, likewise devouring marrow and flesh, tearing away the entrails, laughing and singing, dragging away corpses by the hundred.
7.50.11
शरीरसङ्घाटवहा ह्यसृग्जला ।
रथोडुपा कुञ्जरशैलसङ्कटा।
मनुष्यशीर्षोपलमांसकर्दमा ।
प्रविद्धनानाविधशस्त्रमालिनी ॥ ७.५०.११ ॥
Bearing heaps of bodies, with water of blood, with chariots for boats, crowded with mountains of elephants, with human heads for stones and flesh for mud, garlanded with many kinds of hurled weapons, a river.
7.50.12
भयावहा वैतरणीव दुस्तरा ।
प्रवर्तिता योधवरैस्तदा नदी।
उवाह मध्येन रणाजिरे भृशं ।
भयावहा दीनमृतप्रवाहिनी ॥ ७.५०.१२ ॥
Terrifying and hard to cross like the Vaitaraṇī, the river set flowing then by the best of warriors ran heavily through the middle of the battlefield, fear-bringing, carrying the wretched dead.
7.50.13
पिबन्ति च स्नान्ति च यत्र दुर्दृशाः ।
पिशाचसङ्घास्तु नदन्ति भैरवाः।
सुनन्दिताः प्रणभृतां क्षयंकराः ।
समानभक्षाः श्वसृगालपक्षिणः ॥ ७.५०.१३ ॥
Where bands of goblins with hideous looks drink and bathe and roar terribly, destroyers of living beings, greatly rejoicing, sharing their food with dogs, jackals and birds.
7.50.14
तथा तदायोधनमुग्रदर्शनं ।
निशामुखे पितृपतिराष्ट्रवर्धनम्।
निरीक्षमाणः शनकैर्जहुर्नराः ।
समुत्थिता नृत्तकबन्धसङ्कुलम् ॥ ७.५०.१४ ॥
Thus that battlefield, fearful to behold, at the onset of night increasing the realm of the lord of the ancestors; men went away gazing at it slowly, filled with dancing headless trunks that had risen up.
7.50.15
अपेतविध्वस्तमहार्हभूषणं ।
निपातितं शक्रसमं महाबलम्।
रणेऽभिमन्युं ददृशुस्तदा जना ।
व्यपोढहव्यं सदसीव पावकम् ॥ ७.५०.१५ ॥
With precious ornaments fallen off and scattered, the great-strong Abhimanyu, equal to Indra, felled in battle, was then seen by the people, like a fire in an assembly whose oblation has been withdrawn.