Shloka 166

भीष्मपातने कर्णविलापः | Karṇa’s Lament upon Seeing Bhīṣma Fallen

Devanagari script

धार्तराष्ट्रान्‌ प्रथक्ष्यन्ति तथा बाणा: किरीटिन: । “वीर! जैसे बड़ी-बड़ी लपटोंसे युक्त प्रज्वलित हुई आग वृक्षोंको जलाकर भस्म कर देती है, उसी प्रकार अर्जुनके बाण धुृतराष्ट्रके पुत्रों तथा उनके सैनिकोंको जला डालेंगे

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

dhārtarāṣṭrān pradhakṣyanti tathā bāṇāḥ kirīṭinaḥ |

vīra! yathā mahā-mahā-lapṭaiḥ yuktaḥ prajvalito 'gnir vṛkṣān dagdhvā bhasma karoti, tathā arjunasya bāṇā dhṛtarāṣṭrasya putrān teṣāṃ ca sainikān pradahisyanti |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O hero! Just as a blazing fire, fed by great tongues of flame, burns trees and reduces them to ash, so will the arrows of Arjuna, the diadem-wearer, scorch and consume the sons of Dhritarashtra and their troops.”

Word by Word

• धार्तराष्ट्रान्: the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Kauravas)
• धार्तराष्ट्रान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धार्तराष्ट्र
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• प्रधक्ष्यन्ति: will burn up, will scorch
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-धक्ष्
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), Third, Plural

• तथा: thus, in the same way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• बाणाः: arrows
• बाणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: बाण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• किरीटिनः: of the diademed one (Arjuna)
• किरीटिनः: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: किरीटिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• Arjuna (Kirīṭin)
• Dhritarashtra
• sons of Dhritarashtra (Kauravas)
• arrows (bāṇāḥ)
• fire (agni)
• trees (vṛkṣāḥ)