Shloka 28

धर्मराजस्य चिन्ता, भीमसेनप्रेषणम्, द्रोणानीकप्रवेशप्रयत्नः

Yudhiṣṭhira’s Anxiety and the Dispatch of Bhīma; Attempted Breakthrough into Droṇa’s Formation

Devanagari script

सिन्धुराजस्य यत्‌ कृत्यं गतस्य यमसादनम्‌ | तत्‌ करोतु वृथादृष्टिर्धार्तराष्ट्रीडनुपायवित्‌,भारत! इसी प्रकार वहाँ दूसरे क्षत्रिय निम्नांकित बातें कहते थे--'योग्य उपायको न जाननेवाले और मिथ्या दृष्टि रखनेवाले राजा धृतराष्ट्र यमलोकमें गये हुए सिन्धुराज जयद्रथका जो और्ध्वदैहिक कृत्य है, उसका सम्पादन करें”

Transliteration

Sindhurājasya yat kṛtyaṃ gatasya yamasādanam | tat karotu vṛthādṛṣṭir dhārtarāṣṭrīḍ anupāyavit, Bhārata! |

Translation

“Let Dhṛtarāṣṭra—misguided in vision and ignorant of proper means—carry out, O Bhārata, the duty owed to the king of Sindhu who has gone to Yama’s abode.” Thus, in that place, other kṣatriyas too were heard speaking in this vein.

Word by Word

• {'sindhurāja': 'the king of Sindhu (Jayadratha)', 'kṛtya': 'a duty to be performed

• here, the required rite/obligation', 'gatasya': 'of one who has gone (i.e., departed, deceased)', 'yamasādana': 'Yama’s abode

• the realm of death', 'tat': 'that (rite/duty)', 'karotu': 'let him do/perform (imperative/optative sense)', 'vṛthādṛṣṭi': 'one whose view is vain/false

• misguided, deluded', 'dhārtarāṣṭra': 'Dhṛtarāṣṭra (descendant of Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

• here the king Dhṛtarāṣṭra himself', 'anupāyavit': 'one who does not know the means

• lacking skill in proper measures', 'Bhārata': 'O Bhārata (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra/descendant of Bharata

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sindhurāja (Jayadratha)
• Yama
• Yamasādana (abode of Yama)
• Bhārata