Shloka 28

कर्णपर्व — अध्याय ४०

Karṇa’s Pressure on the Pāñcālas; Duryodhana Disabled; Arjuna’s Counter-Advance

Devanagari script

अवडीनं प्रडीनं च संडीनं डीनडीनकम्‌ | संडीनोड्डीनडीनं च पुनर्डीनविडीनकम्‌

Transliteration

avaḍīnaṃ praḍīnaṃ ca saṃḍīnaṃ dīna-dīnakam | saṃḍīnoḍḍīna-dīnaṃ ca punar dīna-viḍīnakam

Translation

“ই পৰিল, তাৰপিছত আৰু পৰিল; ডুবিল আৰু অধিক দীন হ’ল। পুনৰ ডুবিল, পুনৰ উছলাই দীন হ’ল; আৰু আকৌ দুখেৰে তললৈ পৰিল।”

Word by Word

अवडीनम्‘ava-ḍīna’ (a coined/onomatopoetic item/name), object

प्रडीनम्‘pra-ḍīna’ (coined/onomatopoetic item/name), object

चand

संडीनम्‘saṇ-ḍīna’ (coined/onomatopoetic item/name), object

डीनडीनकम्‘ḍīna-ḍīna-ka’ (coined/onomatopoetic diminutive), object

संडीन‘saṇḍīna’ (coined/onomatopoetic item/name), subject

उड्डीनडीनम्‘uḍḍīna-ḍīna’ (coined/onomatopoetic item/name), object

चand

पुनःagain

डीनविडीनकम्‘ḍīna-vi-ḍīna-ka’ (coined/onomatopoetic item/name), object

Speaker

काक उवाच

Characters & Entities

क

काक (crow)

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 functions less as a doctrinal maxim and more as an evocative warning: repeated moral and material decline leads to compounding misery. In the war context, it underscores the atmosphere of distress and the sense that adharma-driven conflict produces escalating suffering.

What is happening in the narrative?

A crow is presented as speaking in a sound-heavy, repetitive sequence of words. The utterance conveys a rhythm of falling, sinking, and renewed wretchedness—suggestive of an ominous or lamenting cry within the Karṇa Parva’s battlefield narrative.