Shloka 11

अभिमन्योर् विक्रमः — Abhimanyu’s Disruptive Advance and the Gāndharva-astra Counter

Devanagari script

वसातीयं हत॑ दृष्टवा क्रुद्धा: क्षत्रियपुड़वा: । परिवत्रुस्तदा राजंस्तव पौत्रं जिघांसव:,राजन! वसातीयको मारा गया देख क्रोधमें भरे हुए क्षत्रियशिरोमणि वीरोंने आपके पौजत्र अभिमन्युको मार डालनेकी इच्छासे उस समय चारों ओरसे घेर लिया

Transliteration

vasātīyaṁ hataṁ dṛṣṭvā kruddhāḥ kṣatriya-puṅgavāḥ | paryavṛṇvata tadā rājan tava pautraṁ jighāṁsavaḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Seeing Vāsātīya slain, the foremost of warriors, inflamed with wrath, then surrounded your grandson on every side, O King, intent on killing him.

Word by Word

• वसातीयम्: Vasātiya (a person/warrior named Vasātiya)
• वसातीयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वसातीय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• हतम्: slain
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हन् (धातु) / हत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश् (धातु)
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund)

• क्रुद्धाः: angered
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रुध् (धातु) / क्रुद्ध (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• क्षत्रियपुङ्गवाः: bulls among Kshatriyas; foremost warriors
• क्षत्रियपुङ्गवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षत्रियपुङ्गव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• परिवव्रुः: they surrounded/encircled
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि + वॄ (धातु)
• Form: Perfect, 3rd, Plural

• तदा: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा (अव्यय)

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• तव: your
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• पौत्रम्: grandson
• पौत्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पौत्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• जिघांसवः: desiring to kill
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हन् (धातु) / जिघांसु (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Vāsātīya
• Abhimanyu
• Kṣatriya warriors

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how anger born of loss can rapidly turn into coordinated aggression, showing the ethical danger of letting krodha override discernment and restraint in warfare.

What is happening in the narrative?

After Vāsātīya is killed, leading Kṣatriya fighters, enraged, close in from all sides around Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s grandson Abhimanyu, determined to kill him.