Shloka 26

कर्णेन सैन्यस्थापनं तथा नानायुद्धसमवायः

Karna Reforms the Host and Multiple Duels Converge

Devanagari script

राजयाजकयाज्यानां मद्रकाणां च यन्मलम्‌ | तद्‌ भवेद्‌ वै तव मल यद्यस्मान्न विमुड्चसि,“राजपुरोहितोंके पुरोहितों तथा मद्रदेशवासियोंका जो मल है, वह सब तुम्हें प्राप्त हो, यदि इस सरोवरसे तुम मेरा उद्धार न कर दो”

Transliteration

rājayājakayājyānāṁ madrakāṇāṁ ca yan malam | tad bhaved vai tava mala yadyasmān na vimuñcasi ||

Translation

ৰাজযাজক আৰু যিসকলৰ বাবে তেওঁলোকে যজ্ঞ কৰে, লগতে মদ্ৰদেশবাসীৰ বুলি কোৱা সেই ‘মল’ তোমাৰ ওপৰতে পৰক—যদি তুমি মোক এই সৰোবৰৰ পৰা মুক্ত নকৰা।

Word by Word

राजयाजकयाज्यानाम्of those who are to be sacrificed for by the royal priests (i.e., the clients of royal sacrificers)

मद्रकाणाम्of the Madrakas (people of Madra)

चand

यत्whatever/that which

मलम्impurity/filth

तत्that

भवेत्may become / may befall

वैindeed

तवto you / of you

मलःimpurity/defilement

यदिif

अस्मान्us

नnot

विमुञ्चसिyou release / set free / rescue

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Karna

Madra (country/people)

royal sacrificers (rājayājakāḥ)

sacrificial patrons/clients (yājyāḥ)

lake/pond (implied by context: sarovara)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes