Shloka 12

Devanagari script

अथापराल्नि तस्याह्वः परिवार्य सुयोधन: । हृदादाहूय युद्धाय भीमसेनेन पातितः,इसके बाद उसी दिन अपराहक्लकालमें दुर्योधनपर घेरा डालकर उसे युद्धके लिये तालाबसे बुलाकर भीमसेनने मार गिराया

Transliteration

athāparāhṇe tasyāhvaḥ parivārya suyodhanaḥ | hradād āhūya yuddhāya bhīmasenena pātitaḥ ||

Translation

قال فايشَمبايانا: ثم في ذلك اليوم نفسه، في وقت العصر، أُحيط بسويودhana (دوريودhana) من كل جانب. واستُدعي ليخرج من البحيرة للقتال، فضربه بهيماسينا فأرداه—فبلغ النزاع الذي طال تخمّره ذروته الكئيبة بفعلٍ حاسم، غير أنه مثقل بإشكالٍ أخلاقي في ميزان الدارما.

Word by Word

अथthen/thereupon

अपराह्णेin the afternoon

तस्यof him

आह्वःthe calling/summons

परिवार्यhaving surrounded/encircled

सुयोधनःSuyodhana (Duryodhana)

ह्रदात्from the lake

आहूयhaving called/summoned

युद्धायfor battle

भीमसेनेनby Bhimasena

पातितःwas felled/struck down

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Suyodhana (Duryodhana)

Bhīmasena

hrada (lake/pond)

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 war’s end often arrives through decisive force rather than reconciliation, and it frames victory as morally complex: even when a foe is summoned to a formal fight, the surrounding and the manner of being ‘felled’ invite reflection on dharma, proportionality, and the heavy karmic weight of vengeance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Duryodhana, who has taken refuge in a lake, is encircled. He is called out from the water to engage in battle, and Bhīmasena brings him down—marking the collapse of the Kaurava cause at the close of the great war.