Shloka 543

Devanagari script

चिच्छेद सप्तधा राजन्‌ कृतहस्तो महाबल: । राजन! शत्रुओंको संताप देनेवाला महाबली शकुनि सिद्धहस्त था। उसने अपनी ओर आते हुए उस भयंकर बाणके सात टुकड़े कर डाले

Transliteration

ciccheda saptadhā rājan kṛtahasto mahābalaḥ |

Translation

قال سنجيا: أيها الملك، إن شكوني القويّ الماهر قطع ذلك السهم الرهيب القادم نحوه إلى سبعة أجزاء.

Word by Word

• चिच्छेद: cut, severed
• चिच्छेद: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: छिद्
• Form: लिट् (परस्मैपद), Perfect (completed past), 3, Singular

• सप्तधा: into seven parts, sevenfold
• सप्तधा: Karma
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सप्तधा

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• कृतहस्तः: one with accomplished hand; skilled
• कृतहस्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कृतहस्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महाबलः: very strong, mighty
• महाबलः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाबल
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Śakuni
• arrow (bāṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the power of trained skill and alertness to avert danger; ethically, it also reminds that excellence (śaurya/kaushala) is value-neutral and becomes uplifting or destructive depending on the intention and cause it serves.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the expert and mighty Śakuni intercepts an incoming fearsome arrow and slices it into seven pieces, preventing it from striking its target.