Shloka 2736

Chapter 136: Pandava Counter-Encirclement and the Vāyavya-Astra Disruption

Devanagari script

अर्धप्रविष्टा: संरब्धा बिलानीव महोरगा: । जैसे क्रोधमें भरे हुए महान्‌ सर्प बिलोंमें प्रवेश करते समय आधे ही घुस पाये हों, उसी प्रकार वे बाण पृथ्वीमें घुसते हुए शोभा पा रहे थे

Transliteration

ardhapraviṣṭāḥ saṃrabdhā bilānīva mahoragāḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya said: The arrows, driven in with fierce force, looked as though they had entered the earth only halfway—like great serpents, enraged, slipping into their burrows yet caught midway. The image underscores the battlefield’s relentless violence: weapons strike with living intensity, and wrath itself seems to animate the instruments of war.

Word by Word

• अर्धप्रविष्टाः: half-entered
• अर्धप्रविष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अर्ध-प्रविष्ट
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• संरब्धाः: enraged, agitated
• संरब्धाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: संरब्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• बिलानि: burrows, holes
• बिलानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: बिल
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• इव: like, as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• महोरगाः: great serpents
• महोरगाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा-उरग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• arrows (bāṇa) (implied by context)
• earth/ground (pṛthivī) (implied by context)
• great serpents (mahoragāḥ)
• burrows (bilāni)