Shloka 86

Devanagari script

वसारुधिरसम्पृक्ता: संध्यायामिव तोयदा: । श्रीकृष्णके चक्रसे विदीर्ण हुए दैत्य मेदा तथा रक्तमें सनकर संध्याकालके मेघोंकी भाँति दिखायी देने लगे

Transliteration

vasārudhirasampṛktāḥ sandhyāyām iva toyadāḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: Mit Fett und Blut beschmiert und durchtränkt, glichen sie Regenwolken in der Dämmerung—dunkel, schwer und unheilvoll—da sie vom Diskus Śrī Kṛṣṇas zerrissen worden waren.

Word by Word

वसा-रुधिर-सम्पृक्ताःsmeared/mixed with fat and blood

संध्यायाम्at twilight

इवlike/as

तोयदाःclouds (rain-givers)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses stark imagery to underline the ethical gravity of violence: the battlefield’s gore is not merely physical detail but a reminder that acts of slaughter leave a dark, lingering moral atmosphere, like twilight clouds that dim clarity and peace.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator describes the aftermath of fierce fighting: figures (or the scene) are covered with fat and blood, and their appearance is compared to twilight rain-clouds—suggesting darkness, heaviness, and foreboding in the wake of combat.