Mahābhārata

Sānjaya said: Thus all the Pāṇḍavas, with Śikhaṇḍin at the forefront, attacked Bhīṣma in battle, surrounding him from ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

With hundred-arrowed, very terrible, with lances, with battle-axes, With hammers, with maces, with javelins, with missiles of all kinds, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

With arrows with golden nocks, with javelins, lances and spikes, With iron arrows, with tusk-shaped arrows, and with Bhushundi arrows, O descendant of Bhar ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

His body was pierced by many arrows, and his armor was shattered, but the son of Ganga was not distressed, even though his vital parts were being pierced. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He, with the flames of his blazing arrows and bow, with the wind of his released weapons, with the sound of the twanging of his bowstring, with the rising of his great weapons ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The great fire of the great bow, the great fuel of the destruction of heroes, Bhishma, equal to the fire at the end of the yuga, became equal to the enemies. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He descended and emerged from among the mass of chariots, And was seen again, moving in the midst of the kings. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then, having passed the king of Panchala and Dhrishtaketu, that swift one reached the center of the Pandava army. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then Sātyaki, Bhima, Pandava Dhananjaya, Drupada, Virāta, and the Pāṇḍava son of Drāupadi. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

With arrows that had a loud roar, great speed, and that could pierce the elephants of enemies, He struck those six with six arrows that were like the sun. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The great warriors, having warded off his sharp arrows, with ten arrows each, struck Bhishma with force. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

But in the battle, O great vow-observing one, Śikhaṇḍi released arrows. Those arrows, with gold-feathered shafts and sharpened on stone, quickly pierced Bh ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then the angry Kirīṭi attacked Bhīṣma alone, placing Śikhaṇḍin in front, and broke his bow. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The great warriors could not tolerate the breaking of Bhishma's bow. Drona, Kritavarma, and Saindhava Jayadratha, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Bhuri-shravas, Shala, Shalya, Bhagadatta and the others, these seven, very angry, attacked the diademed one. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The great warriors, displaying their best and divine weapons, attacked the Pandavas with great anger, covering them. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The sound of those falling was heard by Phālguna, like the sound of the oceans at the end of the eon. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

"Kill!"" ""Seize!"" ""Fight!"" ""Cut!"" Such was the tumultuous sound that arose toward Phālguna's chariot." ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Hearing that tumultuous sound, the great warriors of the Pandavas rushed to protect Phalguna, bull of the Bharata lineage. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Sātyaki, Bhimasena, and the son of Drāupadi, the son of Virāta, Drupada, and the demon Ghatotkacha, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Abhimānyu also, and these seven, maddened with anger, hurried forward, holding their variegated bows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

There was a tumultuous battle between them, causing the hair to stand on end, like that between the gods and demons, O best of the Bharatas. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

But Shikhandi, the best of charioteers, protected by the diademed one, pierced Bhishma with ten arrows in the battle, when his bow was broken. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then, taking another bow, more powerful than the one he had before, the son of Ganga, and that too he cut into three pieces with his sharp arrows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus the angry Pandava, the left-handed one, the tormentor of enemies, again and again took up and took up the bow of Bhishma and cut it. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

His bow broken, he licked the corners of his mouth in anger, and angrily seized a spear capable of splitting even mountains. And angrily he hurled it at Phālguna' ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Seeing her descend like a blazing lightning bolt, the son of the Pandava took up five sharp swords. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He cut that missile into five pieces with five arrows. Enraged, O best of the Bharatas, by the strength of Bhishma's arms. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

That was cut off by the angry Kiriti and fell down, like a hundred-streamed river broken off from a mass of clouds. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Seeing that his spear broken, Bhishma, full of anger, thought in the battle, the hero, the conqueror of enemy cities, with his intellect. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I am able to kill all the Pandavas with a single arrow, if the very powerful Viṣṇu were not their protector. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I will not fight with the Pandavas, relying on these two reasons: Because the Pandus are invincible and because Shikhandi is a woman. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

When my father, pleased, gave me Kāli, and gave me the freedom to die, and the immunity from death in battle, therefore I think of death as if it were the time ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having thus known the resolve of the infinitely radiant Bhishma, the sages and Vasus, standing in the sky, spoke to Bhishma, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

O hero, whatever you have decided for our great pleasure, do that. O great archer, turn your mind away from battle. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

When that speech was over, a pleasant wind arose, accompanied by deer, blowing in the right direction and fragrant. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The drums of the gods resounded with a great sound, And a rain of flowers fell upon Bhishma, O king. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

No one heard them, O king, except Bhishma, the mighty-armed one, and myself, by the power of the sages. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

O lord of the earth, there was great confusion among the gods. When Bhishma, beloved of all the worlds, was about to fall from his chariot, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having heard the words of the hosts of gods, the great-minded one Then Shantanu's son, Bhishma, did not turn back against Bibhatsu, Though pierced by ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

O great king, Shikhandi, the grandfather of the Bharatas, Angered, struck him in the chest with nine sharp arrows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus struck by him in the battle, Bhishma, the grandfather of the Kurus, did not tremble, great king, like a mountain during an earthquake. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then, laughing, Bībhatsu drew the Gandīva bow, and struck the son of Gaṅga with twenty-five small arrows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Again, with a hundred arrows, Dhananjaya, quick, angry, struck him in all his limbs and vital points. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus, being severely struck by others in the great battle, Those arrows with gold-feathered shafts and sharpened on stone did not cause him pain. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then the angry Kirīṭi attacked Bhīṣma alone, placing Śikhaṇḍin in front, and broke his bow. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then he pierced him with ten arrows and cut off his banner with one. And with ten arrows he made his charioteer tremble. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He took up another bow, stronger than the one from the Ganges, and he also cut it into three pieces with his sharp arrows. In the great battle, he took up and took up ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus he cut off many bows in the battle. Then Shantanu's son Bhishma did not engage with Bibhatsu. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then he struck him with twenty-five small arrows. The great archer, being severely wounded, said to Duhshāsana: ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

This is Partha, the great warrior of the Pandavas, enraged in battle. He is attacking me alone in this battle with thousands of arrows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And he cannot be conquered in battle even by the wielder of the thunderbolt. And the heroes, gods, demons, and demons together, And even I am not able to conquer him, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus, while they were conversing, Phālguna, with sharp arrows, placing Śikhaṇḍin at the forefront, pierced Bhīṣma in the battle. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then, smiling, he again spoke to Duhshāsana: "Severely pierced by sharp arrows by the wielder of the Gandiva bow," ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

sharp, pointed, and well-fitted, like the thunderbolt or lightning, released, uninterrupted, these arrows of Shikhandi are not. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The arrows of the son of Drupada, piercing through the hard armor, are cutting my vital parts. They are like pestles to me. These arrows of the son of Drupada ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

They are as hard to touch as the staff of Brahma, as swift as lightning, and hard to approach. These arrows of Shikhandi do not take away my life. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Like angry serpents, they writhe, powerful with poison. These arrows of Shikhándin do not pierce my vital points. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The arrows of the son of Drupada, the son of Pandu, are like the messengers of Yama, as if they were destroying my life. The blows of the mace and the club ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

They are cutting my limbs, like cows in the month of Māgha. These are Arjuna's arrows, not Śikhaṇḍin's arrows. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

For no other king would have been able to bear my grief, except the hero Gandiva-bowed, the monkey-bannered Jishnu. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus speaking, Shantanu's son, as if burning the Pandava, threw a flaming spear with sparks at him, O descendant of Bharata. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having cut it down with his arrows, he brought it down in three pieces with three arrows. O descendant of Bharata, while all the heroes of the Kurus were watching, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One who, desiring to obtain a sword, a garment, or gold, or one who, desiring victory, is about to go before an enemy, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

His skin was cut into a hundred pieces by that (arrow) of the one who had sharpened his soul, while he was not seated in his chariot. That was indeed wonderful. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having roared loudly like a lion, he urged his own troops, "saying, ""Attack the son of Ganga! Let there be no fear for you at all!""" ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then they with javelins, darts, and showers of arrows, and with battle-axes, swords, and various weapons, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

They attacked him with arrows with curved points and with sharp arrows. Then a terrible lion's roar arose among the Pāṇḍavas. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And your sons, O king, desiring to conquer Bhishma, attacked him alone and roared like lions. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

There was a fierce battle between your troops and the enemy. O lord of kings, on the tenth day, when Bhishma and Arjuna met, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

It was like a whirlpool in the Ganges, like a moment in the ocean, of the armies fighting each other, killing each other. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The earth became impassable, covered with blood. The even and uneven were not distinguished. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having killed ten thousand warriors on that tenth day, Bhishma stood in the battle, though his vital parts were being pierced. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then Partha Dhananjaya, standing at the head of the army, scattered the army of the Kurus in the middle. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

We are frightened of the white-horse, of Kunti's son, Dhananjaya. We are being afflicted by sharp weapons and are fleeing from the great battle. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The Sauviras, the Kitavas, the Prācyas, the Prācyas, the Prācyas, the Prācyas, the Prācyas, the ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The Śālvas, Trigarta, Ambaṣṭhas, and Kekayas, These twelve countries, afflicted by arrows and wounds, Did not abandon Bhīṣma in battle ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

M. N. Dutt: Did not abandon Bhishma in battle who had been fighting with the diadem-decked Arjuna. Then surrounding the single car-warrior *Bhishma, large numbers of the enemy,

M. N. Dutt: Did not abandon Bhishma in battle who had been fighting with the diadem-decked Arjuna. Then surrounding the single car-warrior *Bhishma, large numbers of the enemy, Covered him with arrows showers, having at first defeated the rest of the Kuru warriors. “Slay” “Seize” “Fight” “Cut into pieces," Such were the cries, O king, that were then heard round Bhishma's chariot. Bhishma then slaughtered his foes by hundreds and thousands.

Having struck him with hundreds and thousands of arrows, there was not even an inch of his body that was not pierced. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

M. N. Dutt: But then there was not even a space of two fingers in all his body that was not mangled with shafts. Thus then your father, mangled with keep-pointed dares shot by Phalguna, fail down from his car on the field with his head laid towards the East, a little before sunset before the very eyes of your sons.

M. N. Dutt: Then at the overthrow of Bhishma loud lamentations of “Alas" and "Oh" were heard,O Bharata, among the kings, and the celestial in the heaven.

M. N. Dutt: Beholding the illustrious grandsire fall, we all became dejected and depressed at heart.

M. N. Dutt: That foremost of all bowmen, that mightyarmed hero fell like an uprooted standard in honour of Indra, causing the earth tremble for the while.

M. N. Dutt: Covered closely with arrows he did not then touch the earth's surface. Then as that mighty bowman, that foremost of all male beings lay prostrate on his arrows bed,

M. N. Dutt: Covered closely with arrows he did not then touch the earth's surface. Then as that mighty bowman, that foremost of all male beings lay prostrate on his arrows bed, Being overthrown from his car, a divine inspiration took possession of him. The raincloud Parjanya then poured down its contents and the earth waked. When falling Bhishma had marked the sun to be then on the Southern solstice and that hero considering that hour to be inauspicious for paying his debt to nature did not allow his senses to depart. He then also heard divine utterance in the heaven, viz., “Why should that foremost of all wielders of weapons, Oh, why should the illustrious son of Ganga, Why should that foremost of men give up his life when the sun is in the Southern solstice?" Hearing those words Ganga's son said "I am still alive." Then desirous of yielding his life up during the Northern solstice, the grandsire of the Kurus, viz., Bhishma though fallen on earth still retained his vital breaths.

M. N. Dutt: Ascertaining that to be his intention, Ganga, the daughter of the Himalayas sent great sages under the disguise of swans then to Bhishma. one,

M. N. Dutt: Then those sages disguised under the forms of swans inhabiting the Manasa lake flew to the sky, and in a line came to see Bhishma, the grandsire of the Kurus,

M. N. Dutt: At the spot where that foremost of men was lying on his arrowy bed. Then coming to Bhishma those sages under the forms of swans,

M. N. Dutt: At the spot where that foremost of men was lying on his arrowy bed. Then coming to Bhishma those sages under the forms of swans, Beheld that perpetuator of the Kuru race, viz., Bhishma laid on his bed of arrows. Then beholding that illustrious and circumbulating. That foremost of the Bharatas, that son of Ganga, the sages, knowing the sun to be then in the Southern solstice addressing one another said “Why should the high-souled Bhishma pass away when the sun is in the Southern solstice." Having thus spoken, the swans flew towards the Southern directions. Then that highly intelligent Bhishma beholding them and reflecting for a while said to them, "I shall not yield up my life, As long as the sun will remain in the Southern solstice. This indeed is my determination, I shall repair to my own former abode, When the sun will be in the Northern solstice; this, O Swans. I tell you forsooth. I shall retain my vital breaths loO king anxiously forward for the Northern' solstice.

M. N. Dutt: In as much as my giving up of my life is under my thorough control, therefore shall I retain it desirous of dying during the Northern solstice.

M. N. Dutt: The boon that my illustrious father accorded me. viz.,; that I shall die at my own pleasure, let that boon be true.

M. N. Dutt: As the yielding up of my vital breaths lies entirely with me, I shall retain them.” Having then thus spoken to the swans, he remained (motionless) on his arrowy bed.

M. N. Dutt: Thus when the crest of the Kurus, viz., the highly puissant Bhishma was over thrown the Pandavas and the Srinjayas set up a loud warcry.

M. N. Dutt: When that grandsire of the Bharatas, possessed of great strength was overthrown, O foremost of the Bharatas, your sons knew not what to do.

M. N. Dutt: Then the Kurus were totally confounded; and Kripa and Duryodhana and others began to wail aloud drawing long and heavy signs.

M. N. Dutt: Then the Kurus were totally confounded; and Kripa and Duryodhana and others began to wail aloud drawing long and heavy signs. With their senses deprived of their powers in consequence of grief, they remained inert and reflected for long and did not think of fighting. They could not then rush against the Pandavas as if their thighs were locked and seized in a vice. When that unslayable son of Shantanu. viz., Bhishma endued with great prowess was overthrown, O king, the destruction of the Kuru monarch became apparent. Mangled with sharp shafts and with our foremost heroes slain, And crushed completely by Savyasachin (Arjuna), we did not then know what to do. Then obtaining victory, and a highly blessed state of existence (hereafter), the Pandavas,

M. N. Dutt: All endued with heroism and possessed of bludgeon-like arms, blew their mighty conchs and, O ruler of men, the Somakas together with the Panchalas then were filled with great delight.

M. N. Dutt: Then when thousands of drums were struck up, the highly powerful Bhimasena uttered his fierce war-cries and slapped his arms.

M. N. Dutt: On the fall of that illustrious son of Ganga, the heroic combatants of the two armies laying down their weapons, fell to thinking.

M. N. Dutt: Some wept aloud, some ran wildly, some were overwhelmed with swoon; some then censured the life of a Kshatriya and some worshipped Bhishma.

M. N. Dutt: The sages and the Patriarchs all applauded Bhishma. The ancestral manes of the Bharata race also began to praise him.

M. N. Dutt: Then the highly intelligent son of Shantanu, viz., Bhishma endued with great prowess, be taking himself to the Yoga taught in the Upanishadas and reiterating prayers in his mind, remained quite, anxiously loO king forward for his last hour.