Shloka 94

Devanagari script

संज्ञां चोपालभद्‌ वीर: कालं॑ संचिन्त्य भारत । अन्तरिक्षे च शुश्राव दिव्या वाच: समन्तत:,भारत! समयका विचार करके वीरवर भीष्मने अपने होश-हवाशको ठीक रखा। उस समय आकाशमें सब ओरसे दिव्य वाणी सुनायी दी

Transliteration

saṃjñāṃ copālabhad vīraḥ kālaṃ saṃcintya bhārata | antarīkṣe ca śuśrāva divyā vācaḥ samantataḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya sprach: „O Bhārata, nachdem er über den rechten Zeitpunkt nachgesonnen hatte, gewann der heldenhafte Bhīṣma seine volle Fassung wieder. Da vernahm man aus dem Himmel eine göttliche Stimme, die aus allen Richtungen widerhallte.“

Word by Word

• {'saṃjñām': 'consciousness, awareness

• composure', 'ca': 'and', 'upālabhat (upālabhad)': 'he obtained, he regained', 'vīraḥ': 'hero, valiant warrior', 'kālam': 'time

• the proper moment/occasion', 'saṃcintya': 'having reflected upon, having considered carefully', 'bhārata': 'O descendant of Bharata (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

• also ‘O Bhārata’', 'antarīkṣe': 'in the mid-air, in the sky', 'śuśrāva': 'he heard', 'divyāḥ vācaḥ': 'divine words/voice

• celestial utterance', 'samantataḥ': 'on all sides, from every direction'}

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhārata (Dhṛtarāṣṭra as addressee)
• Bhīṣma
• antarīkṣa (the sky)
• divyā vāk (divine voice)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even in war’s turmoil, a dharmic warrior must recover clarity and act with awareness of kāla (the right time). The ‘divine voice’ motif underscores that human action is not morally neutral: events unfold under a larger ethical and cosmic witness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Bhīṣma, after considering the proper moment, regains composure; immediately afterward a celestial voice is heard from all directions in the sky, signaling an extraordinary, omen-like intervention or proclamation.