Shloka 2136

Śalya Appointed as Karṇa’s Sārathi; Discourse on Praise, Blame, and Beneficial Counsel (कर्णस्य शल्यसारथ्यं तथा स्तवनिन्दाविचारः)

Devanagari script

हार्दिक्यो वारयामास स्मयतन्निव मुहुर्मुहु: । दूसरी ओर समरांगणमें दुर्जय वीर शिखण्डीको, जो भीष्मके लिये मृत्युस्वरूप था, कृतवर्माने बारंबार मुसकराते हुए-से रोका

Transliteration

hārdikyo vārayāmāsa smayatan niva muhur muhuḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya said: Kṛtavarmā, the son of Hṛdīka, repeatedly checked the advance, seeming to smile again and again. Elsewhere on the battlefield he kept holding back the unconquerable hero Śikhaṇḍī—who for Bhīṣma had become the very embodiment of death—thus sharpening the war’s moral tension, where personal destiny and strategic restraint collide.

Word by Word

• हार्दिक्यः: Hārdikya (Kṛtavarman)
• हार्दिक्यः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: हार्दिक्य (कृतवर्मन्-पर्याय)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वारयामास: restrained / held back
• Type: Verb
• Root: वृ (वारयति)
• Form: Perfect (Periphrastic), Third, Singular

• स्म: indeed; (particle used with past narration)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: स्म

• स्मयत्: smiling
• स्मयत्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्मय (स्मयते/स्मयति)
• Form: Present, Active, Nominative, Singular, Masculine

• इव: as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• मुहुः: again and again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मुहुः

• मुहुः: again and again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मुहुः

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Kṛtavarmā (Hārdikya)
• Śikhaṇḍī
• Bhīṣma
• battlefield (samarāṅgaṇa)