Shloka 12

Devanagari script

अन्तर्भेदे च संजाते दुःखं संस्मृत्य च प्रभो । अभूतपूर्वो बीभत्सोर्दु:खान्मन्युरजायत

Transliteration

antarbhede ca saṃjāte duḥkhaṃ saṃsmṛtya ca prabho | abhūtapūrvo bībhatsor duḥkhān manyur ajāyata ||

Translation

Sañjaya sprach: „O Herr, als Zwietracht in ihren Reihen aufkam und er des Leids gedachte, da entstand in Bhībhatsu (Arjuna) aus dem Kummer ein nie dagewesener Zorn.“

Word by Word

अन्तर्भेदेin the internal dissension/discord

चand

संजातेhaving arisen/occurred

दुःखम्sorrow

संस्मृत्यhaving remembered

चand

प्रभोO lord

अभूतपूर्वःunprecedented

बीभत्सोःof the dreadful one (Bhībhatsu/Arjuna)

दुःखात्from sorrow

मन्युःwrath/anger

अजायतarose/was born

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by prabho)

Bhībhatsu (Arjuna)

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 inner fracture (antarbheda) and remembered suffering can transform grief into manyu—an intense, morally charged anger. In the epic’s ethical frame, such anger can be both dangerous (clouding judgment) and motivating (driving a warrior to decisive action), so it must be governed by dharma rather than impulse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that, amid internal dissension, Arjuna (Bhībhatsu) recollects the painful circumstances and, from that grief, an unprecedented fury arises in him—signaling a shift toward more forceful action on the battlefield.