Mb102. Bhurisravas Challenges Satyaki Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

MAHABHARAT

"Satyaki, your good disciple
From your friendly circle,
He'll, any moment, be here.
He's a man with no fear."

Like this Krishna spoke,
Arjuna received a shock.
"Krishna, Is he right?
No. The place why he left? "

"We kept him to prevent,
There any untoward event.
It's my brother I'm worried about,
Something went wrong, I doubt."

Satyaki was stopped by Bhurisravas.
Though cousins, they were foes.
Among them, a severe fight arose.
Satyaki's death came too close.

His right hand, Bhurisravas lost,
When Arjuna sent a shot.
By then, up Satyaki stood,
And cut Bhurisravas's head.

The decisive hour came,
Nervous everyone became.
Duryodhana told Karna,
To take care of Jayadratha.

Both Satyaki and Arjuna,
They jointly attacked Karna.
Arjuna broke thro' the cordon.
His attack on Jayadratha began.

A few hours before sunset
He wasn't killed yet.
Happy was Duryodhana,
O'er the failure of Arjuna.

Dark the sky became.
Out Jayadratha came.
As the sun wasn't seen
On the setting horizon.

"Arjuna, this is the time,
To pay him for his crime.
Now shoot and kill him.
The cause for darkness I'm"

The moment Krishna said,
Arjuna cut Jayadratha's head
With a shaft that went straight,
And it reached its target.

"Arjuna, his head you send,
Thro' your shafts to the end,
With speed and no gaps,
To fall on his father's laps."

As Krishna said
Arjuna so did.
His father also died,
With his son's head.

The fight on the other end,
It came not to an end.
Sun sets or not, never mind,
They didn't wait to find.

Every rule was flouted.
Not a code was observed.
No unarmed was spared.
No head count for the dead.