Shloka 19

Nakula–Śakuni Duel and the Night Battle; Śikhaṇḍin–Kṛpa Engagement (नकुल-शकुनियुद्धं तथा रात्रियुद्धवर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

अन्योन्यं तौ तथा वाग्भिस्तक्षन्तौ नरपुड़वी

Transliteration

anyonyam tau tathā vāgbhis takṣantau narapuṅgavau

Translation

Sañjaya said: Those two foremost of men, striking at one another with words, continued to wound each other through sharp speech—an exchange of verbal blows that mirrored the violence of the battlefield and revealed how anger can turn even the noble into instruments of harm.

Word by Word

• अन्योन्यम्: mutually, each other
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्योन्य
• Form: Avyaya (adverbial use)

• तौ: those two
• तौ: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, nominative, dual

• तथा: thus, in that manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा
• Form: Avyaya

• वाग्भिः: with words/speeches
• वाग्भिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वाच्
• Form: Feminine, instrumental, plural

• तक्षन्तौ: striking/hewing (at each other)
• Type: Verb
• Root: तक्ष्
• Form: Present tense (लट्), active (परस्मैपद), nominative dual participial form used predicatively; person/number: 3rd, dual (sense: 'they two are hewing/striking')

• नरपुङ्गवौ: the two best of men
• नरपुङ्गवौ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरपुङ्गव
• Form: Masculine, nominative, dual

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• two foremost men (narapuṅgavau)