Shloka 21

अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च

Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter

Devanagari script

ततः पुनरमेयात्मा तव पुत्रो हामर्षण:

Transliteration

tataḥ punar ameyātmā tava putro hāmarṣaṇaḥ

Translation

Sañjaya sprach: Dann, abermals, konnte dein Sohn—von unermesslichem Geist—die Kränkung nicht ertragen und wurde zu erneutem Handeln aufgestachelt.

Word by Word

• ततः: then; thereafter
• ततः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (तद्-प्रातिपदिकात् अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (तसिल्-प्रत्यय, 'from/then')

• पुनः: again; once more
• पुनः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः
• Form: अव्यय

• अमेयात्मा: of immeasurable nature; immeasurable-souled
• अमेयात्मा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अमेयात्मन् (अमेय + आत्मन्)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• तव: your
• तव: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: षष्ठी, एकवचन

• पुत्रः: son
• पुत्रः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• हामर्षणः: causing great excitement/harsh agitation; highly provoking
• हामर्षणः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हामर्षण
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• तव पुत्र (your son—Duryodhana implied by context)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights a moral-psychological pattern in war: when pride is wounded, impatience and resentment can override restraint, causing a person to re-enter conflict with renewed intensity. It implicitly warns that inner measure (self-control) matters more than ‘immeasurable’ force when ethical judgment is at stake.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that his son, after a prior development, again becomes unable to tolerate the situation—suggesting a fresh surge of agitation and readiness to act in the ongoing battle episode described in this section of Karṇa Parva.