Shloka 21

भीमकर्णसमागमः | Bhīma–Karṇa Encounter

Devanagari script

अपि तस्य हानहाया: परिक्लेशस्य माधव । कृष्णाया: शवनुयां गन्तुं पद केशप्रधर्षणे,“माधव! जो क्लेश भोगनेके योग्य नहीं है, उस द्रौपदीका केश पकड़कर जो उसे अपमानित किया गया है, उसका बदला इस दुर्योधनको मारकर ही चुका सकता हूँ

Transliteration

api tasya anāhāyāḥ parikleśasya mādhava | kṛṣṇāyāḥ śvanuyāṃ gantuṃ pada keśa-pradharṣaṇe ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O Mādhava, for Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī)—who did not deserve such suffering—after her hair was seized and she was thus outraged and humiliated, I can repay that insult only by slaying Duryodhana.”

Word by Word

• अपि: also/even/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• तस्य: of him/of that
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, singular

• अनर्हायाः: of (her) who is undeserving (of it)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अनर्हा
• Form: feminine, genitive, singular

• परिक्लेशस्य: of the affliction/distress
• Type: Noun
• Root: परिक्लेश
• Form: masculine, genitive, singular

• माधव: O Mādhava (Krishna)
• Type: Noun
• Root: माधव
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• कृष्णायाः: of Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्णा
• Form: feminine, genitive, singular

• स: he/that (one)
• स: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• अनुयायाम्: I should follow/pursue
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनुया
• Form: optative (vidhiliṅ), 1st, singular, parasmaipada

• गन्तुम्: to go
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: infinitive (tumun)

• पद: foot/step; (here) track/footprint
• पद: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पद
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• केशप्रधर्षणे: in the outrage/assault of (her) hair (i.e., hair-pulling insult)
• केशप्रधर्षणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: केश-प्रधर्षण
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mādhava (Kṛṣṇa)
• Kṛṣṇā (Draupadī)
• Duryodhana
• Draupadī’s hair (keśa)