Shloka 8

Devanagari script

जरासंधो हि रुषितो रौहिणेयप्रधर्षित: । अस्मद्वधार्थ चिक्षेप गदां वै सर्वधातिनीम्‌,एक समयकी बात है, रोहिणीनन्दन बलरामजीने युद्धमें जरासंधको पछाड़ दिया था। इससे कुपित होकर जरासंधने हमलोगोंके वधके लिये अपनी सर्वघातिनी गदाका प्रहार किया

Transliteration

jarāsaṃdho hi ruṣito rauhiṇeyapradarṣitaḥ | asmad-vadhārthaṃ cikṣepa gadāṃ vai sarvadhātinīm ||

Translation

Vāyu sprach: „Jarāsandha, erzürnt, weil er von Rauhiṇeya (Balarāma) gedemütigt worden war, schleuderte—auf unsere Vernichtung zielend—seine Keule, wahrlich eine Waffe, die allen den Tod bringt.“

Word by Word

जरासंधःJarasandha

हिindeed/for

रुषितःangered

रौहिणेय-प्रधर्षितःoverpowered/assailed by Rauhiṇeya (Balarama)

अस्मद्-वध-अर्थम्for the purpose of killing us

चिक्षेपhe hurled/threw

गदाम्mace

वैindeed/assuredly

सर्वधातिनीम्all-destroying

Speaker

श्रीवायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

Jarāsandha

Rauhiṇeya (Balarāma)

gadā (mace)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how humiliation and anger can escalate into indiscriminate violence: Jarāsandha’s wounded pride turns into a resolve to kill, symbolized by the ‘all-destroying’ mace. Ethically, it warns that unchecked wrath (krodha) leads to destructive, adharma-leaning action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu recounts an earlier incident: after Balarāma (Rauhiṇeya) defeats and humiliates Jarāsandha in battle, Jarāsandha, furious, throws his deadly mace with the intention of killing ‘us’ (the group aligned with the speaker’s side).