Shloka 133

अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च

Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter

Devanagari script

सरोषान्नि:श्वसन्‌ राजन्‌ निर्दहन्निव चक्षुषा

Transliteration

saroṣān niḥśvasan rājan nirdahann iva cakṣuṣā

Translation

রাজন, তিনি ক্রোধে ফুঁসতে ফুঁসতে দীর্ঘ নিশ্বাস ফেলছিলেন, আর চোখের দৃষ্টিতে যেন দগ্ধ করে ভস্ম করতে উদ্যত ছিলেন।

Word by Word

• सरोषात्: from/with anger (in anger)
• सरोषात्: Apadana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सरोष
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• नि:श्वसन्: breathing out, sighing
• नि:श्वसन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि-श्वस्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• निर्दहन्: burning, scorching
• निर्दहन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: निर्-दह्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• इव: as if, like
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• चक्षुषा: with (his) eyes
• चक्षुषा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: चक्षुस्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how uncontrolled anger manifests outwardly—through breath and gaze—suggesting that krodha can make a person appear destructive even before any action is taken, a warning relevant to ethical self-restraint amid conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra the intense emotional state of a warrior on the battlefield: he is so enraged that he pants and looks as if he could burn others merely by his stare, heightening the scene’s tension.