pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: तस्यैतद् वदनं कृष्ण श्वापदैरर्धभक्षितम्। विभात्यभ्यधिकं तात सप्तम्यामिव चन्द्रमाः॥
English: His face, O Krishna, half eaten away by beasts of prey, looks more beautiful like the moon on the seventh day of the light fortnight.
Sanskrit: शूरस्य हि रणे कृष्ण पश्याननमथेदृशम्। स कथं निहतोऽमित्रैः पांसून् असति मे सुतः॥
English: Look, O Krishna at the face of that heroic son of mine. How could that son of mine be killed by enemies and thus made to eat the dust.
Sanskrit: यस्याहमुखे सौम्य स्थिता नैवोपपद्यते। स कथं दुर्मुखोऽमित्रैर्हतो विबुधलोकजित्॥
English: O amiable one, how could that Durmukha, before whom no enemy could stand be killed by foes.
Sanskrit: चित्रसेनं हतं भूमौ शयानं मधुसूदन। धार्तराष्ट्रमिमं पश्य प्रतिमानं धनुष्मताम्॥
English: Look, O slayer of Madhu, at that other son of Dhritarashtra, viz., Chitrasena, the best of all bowmen, slain and lying on the ground.
Sanskrit: तं चित्रमाल्याभरणं युवत्यः शोककर्शिताः। क्रव्यादसंघैः सहिता रुदत्यः पर्युपासते॥
English: Those young ladies, stricken with grief and crying piteously and now sitting, with beasts of prey, around his beautiful body bedecked with wreaths and garlands.
Sanskrit: स्त्रीणां रुदितनिर्घोषः श्वापदानां च गर्जितम्। चित्ररूपमिदं कृष्णं विचित्रं प्रतिभाति मे॥
English: The piteous lamentations of women, and these cries and roars of beasts of prey, appear highly wonderful to me, OKrishna.
Sanskrit: युवा वृन्दारको नित्यं प्रवरस्त्रीनिषेवितः। विर्विशतिरसौ शेते ध्वस्तः पांसुषु माधव॥
English: Young and beautiful, and always waited upon and served by the most handsome ladies, my son Vivinshati, O Madhava, sleeps there, covered with dust.
Sanskrit: शरसंकृत्तवर्माणं वीरं विशसने हतम्। परिवार्यासते गृध्राः पश्य कृष्ण विविंशतिम्॥
English: His armour has been cut with arrows. Killed in the general destruction, the heroic Vivingshati is now encircled and waited upon by vultures.
Sanskrit: प्रविश्य समरे शूरः पाण्डवानामनीकिनीम्। स वीरशयने शेते परः सत्पुरुषोचिते॥
English: Having in battle penetrated the ranks of the Pandavas army, that hero now sleeps on the bed of a most exalted and heroic Kshatriya.
Sanskrit: स्मितोपपन्नं सुनसं सुभ्रु ताराधिपोपमम्। अतीव शुभ्रं वदनं कृष्ण पश्य विविंशतः॥
English: Look, O Krishna, at his very beautiful and smiling face, having excellent nose and beautiful eyebrows, and resembling the shining Moon himself.
Sanskrit: एनं हि पर्युपासन्ते बहुधा वरयोषितः। क्रीडन्तमिव गन्धर्वं देवकन्याः सहस्रशः॥
English: Formerly a body of the most beautiful ladies used to wait upon him, like thousands of celestial girls upon a sporting Gandharva.
Sanskrit: हन्तारं परसैन्यानां शूरं समितिशोभनम्। निबर्हणममित्राणां दुःसहं विषहेत कः॥
English: Who again could stand before my son Dussaha, that destroyer of heroic enemies, that hero, that ornament of assemblies, that irresistible warrior, that resister of foes.
Sanskrit: दुःसहस्यैतदाभाति शरीरं संवृतं शरैः। गिरिरात्मगतैः कुल्लैः कर्णिकारिवाचितः॥
English: The body of Dussaha, covered with shafts, shines like a mountain overgrown with blossoming Karnikaras.
Sanskrit: शातकौम्या स्रजा भाति कवचेन च भास्वता। अग्निवेव गिरिः श्वेतो गतासुरपि दुःसहः॥
English: With his golden garland and his bright armour, Dussaha, though dead, shines yet, like a white mountain of fire.
Sanskrit: गान्धार्युवाच अध्यर्धगुणमाहुर्यं बले शौर्ये च केशव। पित्रा त्वया च दाशार्ह दृप्तं सिंहमिवोत्कटम्। यो बिभेद चमूमेको मम पुत्रस्य दुर्भिदाम्। स भूत्वा मृत्युरन्येषां मम पुत्रस्य मृत्युवशं गतः॥
English: Gandhari said He whose power and bravery were regarded, O Keshava, as a one and half times superior to those of his father and you, he who took after a dreadful and proud, lion, he who alone pierced the impenetrable army of my son, he who killed many, alas, he now sleeps there, himself dead.
Sanskrit: तस्योपलक्षये कृष्ण काऎरमिततेजसः। अभिमन्योर्हतस्यापि प्रभा नैवोपशाम्यति॥
English: I see, O Krishna, the splendour of that son of Arjuna, of that great hero, viz., Abhimanyu, has not diminished even in death.
Sanskrit: एषा विराट दुहिता स्नुषा गाण्डीवधन्वनः। आर्ता बालं पति वीरं दृष्ट्या शोचत्यनिन्दिता॥
English: There, the daughter of Virata, the daughterin-law of Arjuna, that girl of faultless beauty, stricken with grief on seeing her heroic husband, is bewailing.
Sanskrit: तमेषा हि समागम्य भार्या भर्तारमन्तिके। विराटदुहिता कृष्ण पाणिना परिमार्जति॥
English: Approaching her husband, that young wife, viz., the daughter of Virata, is gently rubbing him, O Krishna, with her hand.
Sanskrit: तस्य वक्त्रमुपाघ्राय सौभद्रस्य मनस्विनी। विबुद्धकमलाकारं कम्बुवृत्तशिरोधरम्॥ काम्यरूपवती चैषा परिष्वजति भामिनी। लजमाना पुरा चैनं माध्वीकमदमूच्छिता॥
English: Formerly, that highly intelligent and beautiful girl, inebriate with honied wines, used bashfully to embrace her lord, and kiss and face of Subhadra's son, resembling a fullblown lotus and supported on a neck bearing three lines like those of a conch-shell.
Sanskrit: तस्य क्षतजसंदिग्धं जातरूपपरिष्कृतम्। विमुच्य कवचं कृष्ण शरीरमभिवीक्षते॥
English: Taking of her husband's golden armour, O hero, that damsel is now looking on the body of her husband covered with blood.
Sanskrit: अवेक्षमाणा तं बाला कृष्ण त्वामभिभाषते। अयं ते पुण्डरीकाक्ष सदृशाक्षो निपातितः॥
English: Beholding her lord, O Krishna, that girl addresses you saying:-'O lotus-eyed one, this hero whose eyes resembled yours, has been killed.
Sanskrit: बले वीर्यं च सदृशस्तेजसा चैव तेऽनघ। रूपेण च तथाप्यर्थं शेते भुवि निपातितः॥
English: In power, energy, and prowess, he has your equal, O sinless one! He resembled you very much in beauty. Yet he sleeps on the ground, killed by the enemy.
Sanskrit: अत्यन्तं सुकुमारस्य राङ्कवाजिनशायिनः। कचिदद्य शरीरं ते भूमौ न परितप्यते॥
English: Addressing her own husband, she says again,-'You were reared up in every luxury. You used to sleep on soft skins of the Ranku deer. Alas, does not your body feet pain to-day by lying thus on this naked Earth.
Sanskrit: मातङ्गभुजवर्माणौ ज्याक्षेपकठिनत्वचौ। काञ्चनाङ्गदिनौ शेते निक्षिप्य विपुलौ भुजौ॥ व्यायम्य बहुधा नूनं सुखसुप्तः श्रमादिव। एवं विलपतीमा न हि मामभिभाषसे॥
English: Stretching your massive arms decorated with golden Angadas, resembling a couple of elephants trunks, and trunks, and coated with skin hardened by constant use of the bow, sleep, you, O lord, peacefully as if worn out with the fatigue of too much exercise. Alas, why do you not speak to me that am weeping so?
Sanskrit: न स्मराम्यपराधं ते किं मां न प्रतिभाषसे। ननु मां त्वं पुरा दूरादभिवीक्ष्याभिभाषसे॥
English: I do not remember to have ever offered you. Why do you not speak to me then? Formerly, you used to addressed me even when you would see me at a distance.
Sanskrit: आर्यामार्य सुभद्रां त्वमिमांश्च त्रिदशोपमान्। पितॄन् मां चैव दुःखार्ता विहाय क्व गमिष्यसि॥
English: Where will you go, leaving behind you the much-respected Subhadra, these your sires who take after the very celestials, and my own wretched self distracted with grief.
Sanskrit: तस्य शोणितदिग्धान् वै केशानुद्यम्य पाणिना। उत्सङ्गे वक्त्रमाधाय जीवन्तमिव पृच्छति॥ स्वतीयं वासुदेवस्य पुत्रं गाण्डीवधन्वनः। कथं त्वां रणमध्यस्थं जनुरेते महारथाः॥
English: See, O Krishna, collecting with her hands the blood-dyed hair of her husband and placing his head on her lap, beautiful lady is addressing him as if he were alive,-How could those great car-warriors kill you in the midst of battle,-you who are the sister's son of Vasudeva and the son of the bolder of Gandiva?
Sanskrit: धिगस्तु क्रूरकृत्स्वान् कृपकर्णजयद्रथान्। द्रोणद्रौणायनी चोभौ यैरहं विधवा कृता॥
English: Alas, fie on those wicked warriors, Kripa, Karna, Jayadratha, Drona and Drona's son, by whom you were killed!
Sanskrit: रथर्षभाणां सर्वेषां कथमासीत् तदा मनः। बालं त्वां परिवार्येकं मम दुःखाय जनुषाम्॥
English: What did those great car-warriors think at that time when they surrounded you, a warrior of tender years, and killed you to my grief?
Sanskrit: कथं नु पाण्डवानां च पञ्चालानां तु पश्यताम्। त्वं वीर निधनं प्राप्तो नाथवान् सन्ननाथवत्॥
English: How could you, O hero, who had so many protectors, be killed so helplessly before the very eyes of the Pandavas and the Panchalas?
Sanskrit: दृष्ट्वा बहुभिराक्रन्दे निहतं त्वां पिता तवा वीरः पुरुषशार्दूलः कथं जीवति पाण्डवः॥
English: Seeing you, O hero, killed in battle by many warriors in a body, how is that foremost of men, that son of Pandu, viz., your father, able to bear the burden of life?
Sanskrit: न राज्यलाभो विपुलः शत्रूणां च पराभवः। प्रीतिं धास्यति पार्थानां त्वामृते पुष्करेक्षण॥
English: Neither the acquisition of a vast territory, nor the discomfitures of their foes, gives joy to the Parthas bereft of you, O lotus-eyed one.
Sanskrit: तव शस्त्रजिताँल्लोकान् धर्मेण च दमेन च। क्षिप्रमन्वागमिष्यामि तत्र मां प्रतिपालय॥
English: By the practice of virtue and self-restraint, I shall very soon go to those blissful regions which you have acquired by the use of weapons. Protect me, O hero, when I go there.
Sanskrit: दुर्मरं पुनरप्राप्ते काले भवति केनचित्। यदहं त्वां रणे दृष्ट्वा हतं जीवामि दुर्भगा॥
English: Until the appointed time comes, one cannot die, since, wretched that I am, I am still alive after seeing you killed in battle.
Sanskrit: कामिदानीं नरव्याघ्र श्लक्ष्णया स्मितया गिरा। पितृलोके समेत्यान्यां मामिवामन्त्रयिष्यसि॥
English: Having gone to the region of the departed manes, whom else, like me, do you address now, O foremost of men, in sweet and smiling words.
Sanskrit: नूनमप्सरसां स्वर्गे मनांसि प्रमथिष्यसि। परमेण च रूपेण गिरा च स्मितपूर्वया।॥
English: Forsooth, you will agitated the hearts of the Apsaras in heaven, with your great beauty and soft and smiling words.
Sanskrit: प्राप्य पुण्यकृताँल्लोकानप्सरोभिः समेयिवान्। सौभद्र विहरन् काले स्मेरथाः सुकृतानि मे॥
English: Having attained the regions reserved for pious persons, you are now united, O son of Subhadra, with the Apsaras. While playing with them, recollect now and then my good acts towards you.
Sanskrit: एतावानिह संवासो विहितस्ते मया सह। षण्मासान् सप्तमे मासि त्वं वीर निधनं गतः॥
English: Your union with me in this world had, it seems, been ordained for only six months, for on the seventh, O hero, you lost your life.
Sanskrit: इत्युक्तवचनामेतामपकर्षन्ति दुःखिताम्। उत्तरां मोघसंकल्पां मत्स्यराजकुलस्त्रियः॥
English: O Krishna, the ladies of the royal house of Matsya are dragging away the sorrowful Uttara, disappointed, and even lamenting in this way.
Sanskrit: उत्तरामपकृष्यैनामार्तामार्ततराः स्वयम्। विराटं निहतं दृष्ट्वा क्रोशन्ति विलपन्ति च॥
English: Dragging away the sorrow-stricken Uttara, those ladies, themselves still more aggrieved then that girl, are weeping and bewailing aloud at sight of the slain Virata.
Sanskrit: द्रोणास्त्रशरसंकृत्तं शयानं रुधिरोक्षितम्। विराटं वितुदन्त्येते गृध्रगोमायुवायसाः॥
English: Wounded with the weapons and arrows of Drona, lying down oi. earth, and bathed in blood, Virata is encompassed by the screaming vultures and yelling jackals and crows ravens.
Sanskrit: वितुद्यमानं विहगैर्विराटमसितेक्षणाः। न शक्नुवन्ति विहगान् निवारयितुमातुराः॥
English: Those black-eyed ladies, approaching the dead body of Matsya king over which carnivorous birds are uttering cries of joy, are trying to turn the body. Weakened by grief, they are unable to do what they wish.
Sanskrit: आसामातपतप्तानामायासेन च योषिताम्। श्रमेण च विवर्णानां वक्त्राणां विप्लुतं वपुः॥
English: Scorched by the Sun, and exhausted with fatigue and toil, their faces have become colourless and pale.
Sanskrit: उत्तरं चाभिमन्युं च काम्बोजं च सुदक्षिणम्। शिशूनेतान् हतान् पश्य लक्ष्मणं च सुदर्शनम्॥ आयोधनशिरोमध्ये शयानं पश्य माधव॥
English: See also, O Madhava, those other children besides Abhimanyu, viz., Uttara, Sudakshina the prince of the Kamvojas, and the beautiful Lakshmana, all lying on the field of battle.' Scorched by the Sun, and exhausted with fatigue and toil, their faces have become colourless and pale.
Sanskrit: गान्धार्युवाच एष वैकर्तनः शेते महेष्वासो महारथः। ज्वलितानलवत् संख्ये संशान्तः पार्थतेजसा॥
English: Gandhari said There the powerful Karna, that great bowman, lies prostrate on the earth. In battle he was like a burning fire. That fire, however, has now been put out by the power of Partha.
Sanskrit: पश्य वैकर्तनं कर्णं निहत्यातिरथान् बहून्। शोणितौघपरीताङ्गं शयानं पतितं भुवि॥
English: See, Vikartana's son Karna, after having killed many Atirathas, has been prostrated on the naked Earth and is covered with blood.
Sanskrit: अमर्षी दीर्घरोषश्च महेष्वासो महाबलः। रणे विनिहतः शेते शूरो गाण्डीवधन्वना॥
English: Wrathful and energetic, he was a great bowman and a powerful car-warrior. Killed in battle by holder of Gandiva, that hero now sleeps on the ground.
Sanskrit: यं स्म पाण्डवसंत्रासान्मम पुत्रा महारथाः। प्रायुध्यन्त पुरस्कृत्य मातङ्गा इव यूथपम्॥
English: My sons, those powerful car-warriors, from fear of the Pandavas, fought, fled by Karna, like a heart of elephants with its leader standing first.
Sanskrit: शार्दूलमिव सिंहेन समरे सव्यसाचिना। मातङ्गमिव मत्तेन मातङ्गेन निपातितम्॥
English: Alas, like a tiger killed by a lion, or an elephant by an infuriate elephant, that warrior has been killed in battle by Savyasachin.
Sanskrit: समेताः पुरुषव्याघ्र निहतं शूरमाहवे। प्रकीर्णमूर्धजाः पत्न्यो रुदत्यः पर्युपासते॥
English: collected together, O foremost of men, the wives of that warrior, with disheveled hairs and loud cried of grief, and sitting around that fallen hero.
Sanskrit: उद्विग्नः सततं यस्माद् धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः। त्रयोदश समा निद्रां चिन्तयन् नाध्यगच्छत॥
English: Anxious about that warrior, king Yudhishthira the just could not sleep for thirteen years.
Sanskrit: अनाधृष्यः परैयुद्धे शत्रुभिर्मघवानिव। युगान्ताग्निरिवार्चिष्मान् हिमवानिव निश्चलः॥
English: Incapable of being restrained by foes in battle like Indra himself who is invincible by enemies, Karna was like the all-destroying fire of dreadful flames at the end of a cycle, and immovable like Himavat himself.
Sanskrit: स भूत्वा शरणं वीरो धार्तराष्ट्रस्य माधव! भूमौ विनिहतः शेते वातभग्न इव द्रुमः॥
English: That hero became the protector of Dhritarashtra's son, O Madhava! Alas killed, he now lies on the bare ground, like a tree struck down by the wind.
Sanskrit: पश्य कर्णस्य पत्नीं त्वं वृषसेनस्य मातरम्। लालप्यमानां करुणं रुदतीं पतितां भुवि।॥
English: Behold, the wife of Karna and mother of Vrishasena, is bewailing piteously and crying and weeping and falling upon the ground.
Sanskrit: आचार्यशापोऽनुगतो ध्रुवं त्वां यदग्रसच्चक्रमिदं धरित्री। ततः शरेणापहृतं शिरस्ते धनंजयेनाहवशोभिना युधि॥
English: Even now she exclaims-Forsooth your preceptors' curse has followed you. When the wheel of your car was sunk in the Earth, the cruel Dhananjaya cut off your head with a shaft.
Sanskrit: हाहा धिगेषा पतिता विसंज्ञा समीक्ष्य जाम्बूनदबद्धकक्षम्। कर्णं महाबाहुमदीनसत्त्वं सुषेणमाता रुदती भृशार्ता॥
English: That lady, the mother of Sushena, greatly stricken with woe and uttering cries of woe, is falling down, unconscious at the sight of the mighty-armed and brave Karna prostrated on the Earth, with his waist still encircled with a golden belt.
Sanskrit: अल्पावशेषोऽपि कृतो महात्मा शरीरभक्षैः परिभक्षयद्भिः। द्रष्टुं न नः प्रीतिकरः शशीव कृष्णस्य पक्षस्य चतुर्दशाहे॥
English: Feasting on the body of that illustrious hero, carnivorous animals, have reduced it greatly. This spectacle is indeed pitiable, like that of the moon on the fourteenth night of the darkfortnight.
Sanskrit: मुत्थाय दीना पुनरेव चैषा। कर्णस्य वक्त्रं परिजिघ्रमाणा रोरूयते पुत्रवधाभितप्ता॥
English: Falling down on the ground the cheerless lady is rising up again. Filled with grief for the death of her son also, she comes and smelleth the face of her husband.
Sanskrit: गान्धार्युवाच आवन्त्यं भीमसेनेन भक्षयन्ति निपातितम्। गृघ्रगोमायवः शूरं बहुबन्धुमबन्धुवत्॥
English: Gandhari said "See, killed by Bhimasena, the king of Avanti lies there. Vultures and jackals and crows are feasting upon that hero. Through possessed of many friends, he lies now perfectly helpless.
Sanskrit: तं पश्य कदनं कृत्वा शूराणां मधुसूदन। शयानं वीरशयने रुधिरेण समुक्षितम्॥ तं
English: See, O slayer of Madhu, having made a great onslaught of enemies, that warrior is now lying on the bed of a hero, bathed in blood.
Sanskrit: शृगालाश्च कङ्काश्च क्रव्यादाश्च पृथग्विधाः। तेन तेन विकर्षन्ति पश्य कालस्य पर्ययम्॥
English: Jackals, and Kankas, and other carnivorous animals of various kinds, are dragging him now. Mark the reverses caused by Time.
Sanskrit: शयानं वीरशयने शूरमाक्रन्दकारिणम्। आवन्त्यमभितो नार्यो रुदत्यः पर्युपासते॥
English: His wives, all are crying in grief, and sitting around that hero who while alive was a terrible slayer of enemies but who now lies on the bed of a hero.
Sanskrit: प्रातिपेयं महेष्वासं हतं भल्लेन बाह्निकम्। प्रसुप्तमिव शार्दूलं पश्य कृष्ण मनस्विनम्॥
English: See, Pratipa's son Valhika, that powerful and highly energetic bowman, slain with a broad-headed shaft, is now lying on the ground like a sleeping tiger.
Sanskrit: अतीव मुखवर्णोऽस्य निहतस्यापि शोभते। सोमस्येवाभिपूर्णस्य पौर्णमास्यां समुद्यतः॥
English: Though dead, the color of his face is still highly bright, like that of the full moon, risen on the fifteenth day of the light fortnight.
Sanskrit: पुत्रशोकाभितप्तेन प्रतिज्ञां चाभिरक्षता। पाकशासनिना संख्ये वार्धक्षत्रिनिपातितः॥
English: Burning with grief on account of the death of his son, and desirous of fulfilling his vow, Indra's son Arjuna has killed there that son of Vriddhakshatra.
Sanskrit: एकादश चमूर्भित्त्वा रक्ष्यमाणं महात्मना। सत्यं चिकीर्षता पश्य हतमेनं जयद्रथम्॥
English: Behold that Jayadratha, who was protected by the illustrious Drona, killed by Partha bent on making good his promise, after penetrating through eleven Akshauhinis of soldiers.
Sanskrit: सिन्धुसौवीरभर्तारं दर्पपूर्णं मनस्विनम्। भक्षयन्ति शिवा गृध्रा जनार्दन जयद्रथम्॥
English: Inauspicious vultures, O Janarddana, are feasting upon Jayadratha, the proud and energetic lord of the Sindhu-Sauviras.
Sanskrit: संरक्ष्यमाणं भार्याभिरनुरक्ताभिरच्युत। भीषयन्त्यो विकर्षन्ति गहनं निम्नमन्तिकात्॥
English: See, O Achyuta, carnivorous creatures are dragging his body away to a neighbouring jungle, though his devoted wives are trying to protect it.
Sanskrit: तमेताः पर्युपासन्ते रक्ष्यमाणं महाभुजम्। सिन्धुसौवीरभर्तारं काम्बो जयवनस्त्रियः॥
English: The Kamvoja and Yavana wives of that powerful king of the Sindhus and the Sauviras are waiting upon him for protecting his body.
Sanskrit: यदा कृष्णामुपादाय प्राद्रवत् केकयैः सह। तदैव वध्यः पाण्डूनां जनार्दन जयद्रथः॥
English: At that time, O Janarddana, when Jayadratha, assisted by the Kekayas, tried to ravish Draupadi, he should have been killed by the Pandavas.
Sanskrit: दुःशलां मानयद्भिस्तु तदा मुक्तो जयद्रथः। कथमद्य न तां कृष्ण मानयन्ति स्म ते पुनः॥
English: Out of respect, for Dusshala, they liberated him on that occasion. Why, O Krishna, did they not show some respect for that Dusshala once more.
Sanskrit: सैषा मम सुता बाला विलपन्ती च दुःखिता। आत्मना हन्ति चात्मानमाक्रोशन्ती च पाण्डवान्॥
English: That young daughter of mine, is now crying sorrowfully. She is striking her body with her own hands and blaming the Pandavas.
Sanskrit: किं नु दुःखतरं कृष्णं परं मम भविष्यति। यत् सुता विधवा बाला स्नुषाश्च निहतेश्वराः॥
English: What, O Krishna, can be a greater grief to me than that my young daughter should be a widow and all my daughters-in-law should equally be so.
Sanskrit: हा हा धिग् दुःशलां पश्य वीतशोकभयामिव। शिरो भर्तुरनासाद्य धावमानामितस्ततः॥
English: Alas, alas, see, my daughter Dusshala having cast off her grief and fears, is running about in search of the head of her husband.
Sanskrit: वारयामास यः सर्वान् पाण्डवान् पुत्रगृद्धिनः। स हत्वा विपुला: सेनाः स्वयं मृत्युवंश गतः॥
English: After killing a vast army, he who had restrained all the Pandavas desirous of rescuing their son, at last himself yielded to death.
Sanskrit: तं मत्तमिव मातङ्गं वीरं परमदुर्जयम्। परिवार्य रुदन्त्येताः स्त्रियश्चन्द्रोपमाननाः॥
English: Alas, those wives of his, with faces as beautiful as the moon, are crying, sitting around that irresistible hero who took after an infuriate elephant.
Sanskrit: गान्धार्युवाच एष शल्यो हतः शेते साक्षान्नकुलमातुल: धर्मज्ञेन हतस्तात धर्मराजेन संयुगे॥
English: Gandhari said There lies Shalya, the maternal uncle himself of Nakula, killed in battle, by the pious and virtuous Yudhishthira.
Sanskrit: यस्त्वया स्पर्धते नित्यं सर्वत्र पुरुषर्षभ। स एष निहतः शेते मद्रराजो महाबलः॥
English: He used everywhere, O foremost of men, to boast of his equality with you. That powerful car-warrior, viz., the king of the Madras, now lies dead.
Sanskrit: येन संगृह्णता तात रथमाधिरथेर्युधि। जयार्थं पाण्डुपुत्राणां तथा तेजोवधः कृतः॥
English: When he accepted the drivership of Karna's car in battle, he tried to depress Karna for securing victory for the sons of Pandu.
Sanskrit: अहो धिक्पश्य शल्यस्य पूर्णचन्द्रसुदर्शनम्। मुखं पद्मपलाशाक्षं काकैरादष्टमव्रणम्॥
English: Alas, alas, look at the smooth face of Shalya, beautiful as the moon, and having eyes resembling lotus petals, eaten away by crows.
Sanskrit: अस्य चामीकराभस्य तप्तकाञ्चनसप्रभा। आस्याद् विनिः सृता जिह्वा भक्ष्यते कृष्ण पक्षिभिः॥५
English: There, the tongue of that king, beautiful like molten gold, looting out of his mouth, is, O। Krishna, being devoured by carnivorous birds.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिरेण निहतं शल्यं समितिशोभनम्। रुदत्यः पर्युपासन्ते मद्रराजं कुलाङ्गनाः॥
English: the ladies of the royal house of Madra, crying aloud, are sitting around the body of that king, that ornament of assemblies, killed by Yudhishthira.
Sanskrit: एताः सुसूक्ष्मवसना मद्रराजं नरर्षभम्। क्रोशन्त्योऽथ समासाद्य क्षत्रियाः क्षत्रियर्षभम्॥ शल्यं निपतितं नार्यः परिवार्याभितः स्थिताः। वासिता गृष्टयः पङ्के परिमग्नमिव द्विपम्॥
English: Those ladies are sitting around that fallen hero like a herd of she-elephants in their season around their leader sunk in mud.
Sanskrit: शल्यं शरणदं शूरं पश्येमं वृष्णिनन्दन। शयानं वीरशयने शरैर्विशकलीकृतम्॥
English: Look at the brave Shalya, the great protector and the foremost of car-warriors, stretched on the bed of heroes, his body wounded with arrows.
Sanskrit: एष शैलालयो राजा भगदत्तः प्रतापवान्। गजाङ्कुशधरः श्रीमाशेते भुवि निपातितः॥
English: There the highly powerful king Bhagadatta, the king of a mountainous kingdom, the foremost of all holders of good, lies dead on the Earth.
Sanskrit: यस्य रुक्ममयी माला शिरस्येषा विराजते। श्वापदैर्भक्ष्यमाणस्य शोभयन्तीव मूर्धजान्॥
English: Look at the golden and shining garland that he still wears on his head. Though the body is being devoroured by beasts of prey, that garland still adorns the beautiful hairs on his head.
Sanskrit: एतेन किल पार्थस्य युद्धमासीत् सुदारुणम्। रोमहर्षणमत्युग्रं शक्रस्य त्वहिना यथा॥
English: Dreadful was the battle that took place between this king and Partha, making the hairs stand erect, like that between Shakra and the Asura Vritra.
Sanskrit: योधयित्वा महाबाहुरेष पार्थं धनंजयम्। संशयं गमयित्वा च कुन्तीपुत्रेण पातितः॥
English: Having fought Dhananjaya ine son of Pritha, and brought him to a perilous condition,। this mighty-armed one, was at last killed by his antagonist.
Sanskrit: यस्य नास्ति समो लोके शौर्ये वीर्ये च कश्चन। स एष निहतः शेते भीष्मो भीष्मकृताहवे॥
English: He who had no equal on Earth in heroism and energy, that achiever of dreadful feasts in battle, viz., Bhishma, lies there dead.
Sanskrit: पश्य शान्तनवं कृष्ण शयानं सूर्यवर्चसम्। युगान्त इव कालेन पतितं सूर्यमम्बरात्॥
English: Behold the son of Shantanu, O Krishna, that hero effulgent like the sun, stretched on the Earth, like the Sun himself dropped off the sky at the end of the Yuga.
Sanskrit: एष तप्त्वा रणे शत्रूशस्त्रतापेन वीर्यवान्। नरसूर्योऽस्तमभ्येति सूर्योऽस्तमिव केशव॥
English: Having scorched his enemies with the fire of his weapons in battle, that brave warrior, that Sun among men, O Keshava, has set like the real Sun at evening.
Sanskrit: शरतल्पगतं भीष्ममूर्ध्वरेतसमच्युतम्। शयानं वीरशयने पश्य शूरनिषेविते॥
English: Look at that hero, O Krishna, who in knowledge of duty was equal to Devapi himself, now lying on a bed of arrows, worthy of heroes.
Sanskrit: कर्णिनालीकनाराचैरास्तीर्य शयनोत्तमम्। आविश्य शेते भगवान् स्कन्दः शरवणं यथा॥
English: Having spread his bed of barbed and unbarbed arrows, that hero lieth on it like Skanda on a clump of reeds.
Sanskrit: अतूलपूर्ण गाङ्गेयस्त्रिभिर्बाणैः समन्वितम्। उपधायोपधानाग्रयं दत्तं गाण्डीवधन्वना॥
English: Indeed, the son of Ganga lies there, resting his head on that excellent pillow, consisting of three arrows,-given him by Arjuna.
Sanskrit: पालयानः पितुः शास्त्रमूर्ध्वरेता महायशाः। एष शान्तनवः शेते माधवप्रतिमो युधि॥
English: For obeying the mandate of his father, this illustrious one drew up his vital seed. Peerless in battle, that son of Shantanu lies there, O Madhava.