Shloka 69

Devanagari script

विजयो ध्रुवमेवास्य विजयस्य महात्मन: । खाण्डवे येन हुतभुक्तोषित: सव्यसाचिना

Transliteration

vijayo dhruvam evāsya vijayasya mahātmanaḥ | khāṇḍave yena hutabhuktoṣitaḥ savyasācinā ||

Translation

Sañjaya sprach: „Der Sieg ist gewiss für jenen Großherzigen — für den, der selbst wie der Inbegriff des ‚Sieges‘ ist. Im Khāṇḍava-Wald war es Savyasācī, der Agni, den Verzehrer der Opfergaben, zufriedenstellte; einen solchen kann niemand bezwingen.“

Word by Word

विजयःvictory

ध्रुवम्certain, assured

एवindeed, surely

अस्यof him, his

विजयस्यof victory / of the victorious one

महात्मनःof the great-souled (one)

खाण्डवेin (the forest) Khāṇḍava

येनby whom

हुतभुक्Agni (the oblation-eater)

तोषितःsatisfied, pleased

सव्यसाचिनाby Savyasācin (Arjuna)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Arjuna (Savyasācin)

Agni (Hutabhuk)

Khāṇḍava forest

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Past dharmic prowess and divine alignment are presented as signs of inevitable success: one who has previously acted with extraordinary valor and fulfilled a divine purpose (pleasing Agni at Khāṇḍava) is portrayed as carrying an ethical and karmic momentum that makes victory ‘certain’ in the present conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reassures Dhṛtarāṣṭra about the outcome by pointing to Arjuna’s established greatness. He recalls the Khāṇḍava episode, where Arjuna enabled Agni to consume the forest and thus ‘satisfied’ the Fire-god, using that renowned deed as evidence that Arjuna’s victory in the current war situation is assured.