Shloka 1636

Devanagari script

दाहकाले खाण्डवस्य कुरुक्षेत्र गतो हासौ । “वासव! तुम्हारे सखा नागप्रवर तक्षक इस समय यहाँ नहीं हैं। वे खाण्डवदाहके समय कुरुक्षेत्र चले गये थे

Transliteration

dāhakāle khāṇḍavasya kurukṣetra gato hāsau | “vāsava! tumhāre sakhā nāgapravara takṣaka iha samayaṁ nāsti | te khāṇḍavadāhake samaye kurukṣetraṁ calitāḥ”

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “At the time when the Khāṇḍava forest was being burned, he had gone to Kurukṣetra. O Vāsava (Indra), your friend—Takṣaka, the foremost among serpents—is not here at present; during the burning of Khāṇḍava he departed for Kurukṣetra.”

Word by Word

• दाहकाले: at the time of the burning
• दाहकाले: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दाहकाल
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• खाण्डवस्य: of (the) Khāṇḍava (forest)
• खाण्डवस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: खाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• कुरुक्षेत्रम्: to Kurukṣetra
• कुरुक्षेत्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कुरुक्षेत्र
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• गतः: gone
• गतः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, क्त (past passive participle)

• ह: indeed/for emphasis
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह

• असौ: that one/he
• असौ: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: असद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक: अदस्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana
• Vāsava (Indra)
• Takṣaka
• Khāṇḍava (forest)
• Kurukṣetra