Mahabharata · Chapter 10.14
iṅgitenaiva dāśārhastasyābhiprāyamāditaḥ /
drauṇerbuddhā mahābāhurarjunaṃ pratyabhāṣata //
arjunārjuna yaddivyamastraṃ te hṛdi vartate /
droṇopadiṣṭaṃ tasyāyaṃ kālaḥ samprati pāṇḍava //
bhrātṝṇāmātmanaścaiva paritrāṇāya bhārata /
visṛjaitattvamapyājāvastramastranivāraṇam //
keśavenaivamukto'tha pāṇḍavaḥ paravīrahā /
avātaradrathāttūrṇaṃ pragṛhya saśaraṃ dhanuḥ //
pūrvamācāryaputrāya tato'nantaramātmane /
bhrātṛbhyaścaiva sarvebhyaḥ svastītyuktvā parantapaḥ //
devatābhyo namaskṛtya gurubhyaścaiva sarvaśaḥ /
utsasarja śivaṃ dhyāyannastramastreṇa śāmyatām //
tatastadas्raṃ sahasā sṛṣṭaṃ gāṇḍīvadhanvanā /
prajajvāla mahārciṣmadyugāntānalasannibham //
tathaiva droṇaputrasya tadastraṃ tigmatejasaḥ /
prajajvāla mahājvālaṃ tejomaṇḍalasaṃvṛtam //
nirghātā bahavaścāsanpeturulkāḥ sahasraśaḥ /
mahadbhayaṃ ca bhūtānāṃ sarveṣāṃ samajāyata //
saśabdamabhavadvyoma jvālāmālākulaṃ bhṛśam /
cacāla ca mahī kṛtsnā saparvatavanadrumā //
tāvastratejasā lokāṃstrāsayantau tataḥ sthitau /
maharṣī sahitau tatra darśayāmāsatustadā //
nāradaḥ sarvadharmātmā bharatānāṃ pitāmahaḥ /
ubhau śamayituṃ vīrau bhāradvājadhanañjayau //
tau munī sarvadharmajñau sarvabhūtahitaipiṇau /
dīptayoras्rayormadhye sthitau paramatejasau //
tadantaramanādhṛṣyāvupagamya yaśasvinau /
āstāmṛṣivarau tatra jvalitāviva pāvakau //
prāṇabhṛdbhiranādhṛṣyau devadānavasammatau /
astratejaḥ śamayituṃ lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā //
ṛṣī ūcatuḥ /
mahāstraviduṣaḥ pūrve ye'pyatītā mahārathāḥ / naitadas्raṃ manuṣyeṣu taiḥ prayuktaṃ kathañcana /
kimidaṃ sāhasaṃ vīrau kṛtavantau mahātyayam //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0