Shloka 29

Devanagari script

दुःशासनस्तु संक्रुद्धः प्रभिन्न इव कुड्जर: । अयोधयत सौभद्रमभिमन्युश्न तं रणे,मदकी धारा बहानेवाले गजराजके समान क्रोधमें भरा हुआ दुःशासन उस रफक्षेत्रमें अभिमन्युसे और अभिमन्यु दुःशासनसे युद्ध करने लगे

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

duḥśāsanas tu saṅkruddhaḥ prabhinna iva kuñjaraḥ |

ayodhayat saubhadram abhimanyunā taṃ raṇe ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Duḥśāsana, inflamed with rage like a rut-maddened elephant, engaged Saubhadra (Abhimanyu) in battle; and there on the field Abhimanyu and Duḥśāsana fought one another.

Word by Word

दुःशासनःDuhshasana

तुbut/indeed

संक्रुद्धःenraged

प्रभिन्नःin rut/maddened (as an elephant)

इवlike/as

कुञ्जरःelephant

अयोधयत्made (him) fight / fought against

सौभद्रम्the son of Subhadra (Abhimanyu)

अभिमन्युःAbhimanyu

चand

तम्him (Duhshasana)

रणेin battle

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Duḥśāsana

Abhimanyu (Saubhadra)

raṇa (battlefield)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how uncontrolled anger (krodha) propels a person into destructive action. Even amid martial valor, rage is portrayed as a force that clouds judgment and deepens the ethical degradation of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Duḥśāsana, furious and compared to a rut-maddened elephant, directly engages Abhimanyu (Saubhadra) in combat; the two fight each other on the battlefield during the Drona Parva sequence.