Shloka 776

भीष्मस्य मध्याह्नयुद्धवर्णनम् / Mid-day Battle Description: Bhīṣma Engaged by the Pāñcālas

Devanagari script

परस्परं समासाद्य तव तेषां च संयुगे । भारत! इस प्रकार आपकी और पाण्डवोंकी वे दोनों विशाल सेनाएँ एक-दूसरीसे भिड़कर युद्धस्थलमें रौंदी जा रही थी

Transliteration

parasparaṁ samāsādya tava teṣāṁ ca saṁyuge | bhārata! |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O Bhārata (Dhṛtarāṣṭra), having closed with one another in battle—your forces and theirs—the two vast armies were locked in mutual assault, trampling and being trampled on the field.”

Word by Word

• परस्परम्: mutually, each other
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: परस्पर

• समासाद्य: having approached/encountered
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-√सद्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि

• तव: of you/your
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: षष्ठी, एकवचन

• तेषाम्: of them/their
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: पुं, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• संयुगे: in the battle/engagement
• संयुगे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: संयुग
• Form: नपुंसक, सप्तमी, एकवचन

• भारत: O Bharata
• Type: Noun
• Root: भारत
• Form: पुं, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (addressed as Bhārata)
• Kaurava army (tava senā)
• Pāṇḍava army (teṣām senā)
• battlefield (raṇabhūmi/saṁyuga context)