Shloka 515

दुर्योधनकवचविमर्शः

Duryodhana’s Armor and the Tactical Reassessment

Devanagari script

हैँ |। हि

Transliteration

haiṁ |. hi

Translation

The transmitted text here is fragmentary and does not preserve a complete, meaningful utterance. As it stands, it cannot be translated into coherent narrative or ethical instruction without consulting a corrected reading from the Gita Press edition or a critical apparatus.

Word by Word

• हैँ: unidentifiable/possibly corrupt reading (not standard Sanskrit)
• Type: Indeclinable

• हि: indeed; for; because
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• वायुदेव (Vāyudeva)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

No core teaching can be reliably extracted from the given fragment; only the particle 'hi' (“indeed/for”) is clear, which normally supports emphasis or a causal explanation in a complete sentence.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker is identified as Vāyudeva (“the Wind-god”), but the actual content of his speech is not preserved in the provided text. A complete narrative description requires the full, correctly transmitted verse.