Shloka 120

Devanagari script

विमुखाउ्छात्रवान्‌ सर्वान्‌ कारयिष्यति मे सुत: । बाल: प्रविश्य च व्यूहमभेद्यं विचरिष्यति,“देवताओ! एक दिन जब कि उस युद्धमें नर और नारायण (अर्जुन और श्रीकृष्ण) उपस्थित न रहेंगे, उस समय शत्रुपक्षके लोग चक्रव्यूहकी रचना करके आप-लोगोंके साथ युद्ध करेंगे। उस युद्धमें मेरा यह पुत्र समस्त शत्रु-सैनिकोंको युद्धसे मार भगायेगा और बालक होनेपर भी उस अभेद्य व्यूहमें घुसकर निर्भय विचरण करेगा

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | vimukhaucchātravān sarvān kārayiṣyati me sutaḥ | bālaḥ praviśya ca vyūham abhedyaṃ vicariṣyati |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “My son will put all those foes to flight, stripping them of pride and protection. Though still a mere boy, he will enter that impenetrable battle-formation and move about within it fearlessly.”

Word by Word

विमुखान्turned away; routed

छात्रवान्as if with an umbrella; umbrella-bearing (epithet/descriptor)

सर्वान्all

कारयिष्यतिwill cause (to do); will make (them) (become)

मेof me; my

सुतःson

बालःa boy; child

प्रविश्यhaving entered

चand

व्यूहम्battle-formation; array

अभेद्यम्impenetrable; unbreakable

विचरिष्यतिwill roam; will move about

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

me sutaḥ (the speaker’s son)

vyūha (battle formation)

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 the kṣatriya ideal of fearless resolve and steadfastness in crisis: even youth is not an excuse for abandoning duty when courage and commitment to one’s side are required.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator reports a confident prediction: the speaker’s son will rout the enemy and, despite being young, will enter and move fearlessly within an ‘impenetrable’ military formation (vyūha).