Shloka 38

Devanagari script

शिरस्तच्चापि संगृहा केशेषु रुधिरोक्षितम्‌

Transliteration

śirastaccāpi saṅgṛhya keśeṣu rudhirokṣitam

Translation

Sañjaya said: Having also taken up that severed head—its hair drenched with blood—he held it as a grim token of the war’s brutality, a moment that underscores how victory in battle often arrives entwined with horror and moral cost.

Word by Word

• शिरः: head
• शिरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिरस्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

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

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• संगृह्य: having seized/taken up
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-ग्रह्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund), Parasmaipada (usage)

• केशेषु: in/among the hairs (by the hair)
• केशेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: केश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• रुधिर-उक्षितम्: sprinkled/smeared with blood
• रुधिर-उक्षितम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुधिर + उक्षित (√उक्ष्)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• head (śiras)
• hair (keśa)
• blood (rudhira)