Shloka 29

Bhagadattā’s Deployment Against Ghaṭotkaca; Elephant-Corps Escalation

Devanagari script

बह्बाशिनं ततो भीम: शरेणानतपर्वणा । प्रेषयामास संक़रुद्धो यमस्य सदन प्रति,इसके बाद क्रोधमें भरे हुए भीमसेनने झुकी हुई गाँठवाले बाणसे मारकर बह्लाशीको यमलोक भेज दिया

Transliteration

bahvāśinaṃ tato bhīmaḥ śareṇānataparvaṇā | preṣayāmāsa saṃkruddho yamasya sadanaṃ prati ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Then Bhīma, inflamed with wrath, struck Bahvāśin with an arrow whose joints were bent, and dispatched him toward the abode of Yama. In the brutal ethic of battlefield duty, the act is shown not as personal cruelty but as swift fulfillment of a warrior’s role under the inexorable law of death.

Word by Word

• बह्वाशिनम्: Bahvāśin (a person named Bahvāśin), the one who eats much
• बह्वाशिनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: बह्वाशिन्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• ततः: then, thereafter
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• भीमः: Bhīma
• भीमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शरेण: with an arrow
• शरेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शर
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• आनतपर्वणा: having bent joints/knots (i.e., with a curved-jointed arrow)
• आनतपर्वणा: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आनतपर्वन्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• प्रेषयामास: sent, dispatched
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-इष्
• Form: Perfect (Periphrastic perfect), Third, Singular

• सङ्क्रुद्धः: enraged, wrathful
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-क्रुध्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• यमस्य: of Yama
• Type: Noun
• Root: यम
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• सदनम्: abode, house
• Type: Noun
• Root: सदन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• प्रति: towards
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रति

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhīma (Bhīmasena)
• Bahvāśin
• Yama
• arrow (śara)