Texts

vāsudeva uvāca / (1.1) Par.?

evam uktvā raukmiṇeyo yādavān bharatarṣabha / (1.2) Par.?

daṃśitair haribhir yuktaṃ ratham āsthāya kāñcanam // (1.3) Par.?

ucchritya makaraṃ ketuṃ vyāttānanam alaṃkṛtam / (2.1) Par.?

utpatadbhir ivākāśaṃ tair hayair anvayāt parān // (2.2) Par.?

vikṣipan nādayaṃś cāpi dhanuḥśreṣṭhaṃ mahābalaḥ / (3.1) Par.?

tūṇakhaḍgadharaḥ śūro baddhagodhāṅgulitravān // (3.2) Par.?

sa vidyuccalitaṃ cāpaṃ viharan vai talāt talam / (4.1) Par.?

mohayāmāsa daiteyān sarvān saubhanivāsinaḥ // (4.2) Par.?

nāsya vikṣipataś cāpaṃ saṃdadhānasya cāsakṛt / (5.1) Par.?

antaraṃ dadṛśe kaścin nighnataḥ śātravān raṇe // (5.2) Par.?

mukhasya varṇo na vikalpate 'sya celuś ca gātrāṇi na cāpi tasya / (6.1) Par.?

siṃhonnataṃ cāpy abhigarjato 'sya śuśrāva loko 'dbhutarūpam agryam // (6.2) Par.?

jalecaraḥ kāñcanayaṣṭisaṃstho vyāttānanaḥ sarvatimipramāthī / (7.1) Par.?

vitrāsayan rājati vāhamukhye śālvasya senāpramukhe dhvajāgryaḥ // (7.2) Par.?

tataḥ sa tūrṇaṃ niṣpatya pradyumnaḥ śatrukarśanaḥ / (8.1) Par.?

śālvam evābhidudrāva vidhāsyan kalahaṃ nṛpa // (8.2) Par.?

abhiyānaṃ tu vīreṇa pradyumnena mahāhave / (9.1) Par.?

nāmarṣayata saṃkruddhaḥ śālvaḥ kurukulodvaha // (9.2) Par.?

sa roṣamadamatto vai kāmagād avaruhya ca / (10.1) Par.?

pradyumnaṃ yodhayāmāsa śālvaḥ parapuraṃjayaḥ // (10.2) Par.?

tayoḥ sutumulaṃ yuddhaṃ śālvavṛṣṇipravīrayoḥ / (11.1) Par.?

sametā dadṛśur lokā balivāsavayor iva // (11.2) Par.?

tasya māyāmayo vīra ratho hemapariṣkṛtaḥ / (12.1) Par.?

sadhvajaḥ sapatākaś ca sānukarṣaḥ satūṇavān // (12.2) Par.?

sa taṃ rathavaraṃ śrīmān samāruhya kila prabho / (13.1) Par.?

mumoca bāṇān kauravya pradyumnāya mahābalaḥ // (13.2) Par.?

tato bāṇamayaṃ varṣaṃ vyasṛjat tarasā raṇe / (14.1) Par.?

pradyumno bhujavegena śālvaṃ saṃmohayann iva // (14.2) Par.?

sa tair abhihataḥ saṃkhye nāmarṣayata saubharāṭ / (15.1) Par.?

śarān dīptāgnisaṃkāśān mumoca tanaye mama // (15.2) Par.?

sa śālvabāṇai rājendra viddho rukmiṇinandanaḥ / (16.1) Par.?

mumoca bāṇaṃ tvarito marmabhedinam āhave // (16.2) Par.?

tasya varma vibhidyāśu sa bāṇo matsuteritaḥ / (17.1) Par.?

bibheda hṛdayaṃ pattrī sa papāta mumoha ca // (17.2) Par.?

tasmin nipatite vīre śālvarāje vicetasi / (18.1) Par.?

samprādravan dānavendrā dārayanto vasuṃdharām // (18.2) Par.?

hāhākṛtam abhūt sainyaṃ śālvasya pṛthivīpate / (19.1) Par.?

naṣṭasaṃjñe nipatite tadā saubhapatau nṛpa // (19.2) Par.?

tata utthāya kauravya pratilabhya ca cetanām / (20.1) Par.?

mumoca bāṇaṃ tarasā pradyumnāya mahābalaḥ // (20.2) Par.?

tena viddho mahābāhuḥ pradyumnaḥ samare sthitaḥ / (21.1) Par.?

jatrudeśe bhṛśaṃ vīro vyavāsīdad rathe tadā // (21.2) Par.?

taṃ sa viddhvā mahārāja śālvo rukmiṇinandanam / (22.1) Par.?

nanāda siṃhanādaṃ vai nādenāpūrayanmahīm // (22.2) Par.?

tato mohaṃ samāpanne tanaye mama bhārata / (23.1) Par.?

mumoca bāṇāṃs tvaritaḥ punar anyān durāsadān // (23.2) Par.?

sa tair abhihato bāṇair bahubhis tena mohitaḥ / (24.1) Par.?

niśceṣṭaḥ kauravaśreṣṭha pradyumno 'bhūd raṇājire // (24.2) Par.?