Shloka 33

Devanagari script

ते पर्वतीया राजान: सर्वे पाषाणयोधिन: । अभ्यद्रवन्त शैनेयं राजानमिव मन्त्रिण:,जैसे मन्त्री राजाके पास जाते हैं, उसी प्रकार वे पाषाणयोधी समस्त पर्वतीय नरेश सात्यकिकी ओर दौड़े

Transliteration

te parvatīyā rājānaḥ sarve pāṣāṇayodhinaḥ | abhyadravanta śaineyaṃ rājānam iva mantriṇaḥ ||

Translation

قال سَنجايا: إن ملوك الجبال أولئك جميعًا—مقاتلي الحجارة—اندفعوا نحو شَينَيَة (ساتياكي) كما يسرع الوزراء إلى ملكهم، يطبقون عليه بقصدٍ متناسق وسط زحمة القتال.

Word by Word

तेthose

पर्वतीयाःmountain(-dwelling)

राजानःkings

सर्वेall

पाषाणयोधिनःstone-fighters (those who fight with stones)

अभ्यद्रवन्तran towards / rushed at

शैनेयम्Śaineya (Sātyaki)

राजानम्king

इवlike, as

मन्त्रिणःministers, counselors

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Śaineya (Sātyaki)

parvatīyāḥ rājānaḥ (mountain-kings)

pāṣāṇa (stones, as weapons)

mantriṇaḥ (ministers, as a simile)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how organized counsel and political order (ministers converging on a king) becomes a metaphor for coordinated military pressure—suggesting that collective intent and disciplined alignment can be as decisive in war as individual valor.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that a group of mountain-region kings, known for fighting with stones, charge together toward Sātyaki (Śaineya), surrounding or pressing him in a concentrated attack.