Shloka 46

Devanagari script

आयुधानि च सर्वेषां बाहूनपि विभूषितान्‌ । अपतन्त निकृत्ताड़गा मृता भूमौ गतासव:,उन सबके आयुधों और भूषणभूषित भुजाओंको भी उसने काट डाला। इस प्रकार अंग-अंग कट जानेसे वे प्राणशून्य हो मरकर धरतीपर गिर पड़े

Transliteration

āyudhāni ca sarveṣāṃ bāhūn api vibhūṣitān | apatanta nikṛttāṅgā mṛtā bhūmau gatāsavaḥ ||

Translation

সেই সকলোৰে অস্ত্ৰসমূহো সি কাটি পেলালে, আৰু অলংকাৰ-ভূষিত বাহুবোৰো ছেদন কৰিলে। অঙ্গচ্ছেদ হৈ তেওঁলোক প্ৰাণশূন্য হৈ মাটিত পৰি মৰিল।

Word by Word

आयुधानिweapons

चand

सर्वेषाम्of all (of them)

बाहून्arms

अपिalso/even

विभूषितान्adorned/decorated

अपतन्तfell down

निकृत्तcut off/severed

अङ्गाःlimbs

मृताःdead

भूमौon the ground

गतgone/departed

असवःvital breaths/lives

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

weapons (āyudha)

arms (bāhu)

earth/ground (bhūmi)

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 underscores the stark impermanence of bodily strength and external adornment in war: weapons and ornamented limbs alike are reduced to nothing. Ethically, it highlights the grave cost of kṣatriya conflict—valor and duty unfold amid irreversible destruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a warrior’s devastating assault: he cuts down the opponents’ weapons and even their decorated arms. Maimed and lifeless, they collapse onto the earth, emphasizing the intensity and brutality of the ongoing battle.