Shloka 133

अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च

Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter

Devanagari script

सरोषान्नि:श्वसन्‌ राजन्‌ निर्दहन्निव चक्षुषा

Transliteration

saroṣān niḥśvasan rājan nirdahann iva cakṣuṣā

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O King, he breathed hard in anger, and with his eyes he seemed as though he would burn (his opponent) to ashes.”

Word by Word

• सरोषात्: from/with anger (in anger)
• सरोषात्: Apadana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सरोष
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• नि:श्वसन्: breathing out, sighing
• नि:श्वसन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि-श्वस्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• निर्दहन्: burning, scorching
• निर्दहन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: निर्-दह्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• चक्षुषा: with (his) eyes
• चक्षुषा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: चक्षुस्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how uncontrolled anger manifests outwardly—through breath and gaze—suggesting that krodha can make a person appear destructive even before any action is taken, a warning relevant to ethical self-restraint amid conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra the intense emotional state of a warrior on the battlefield: he is so enraged that he pants and looks as if he could burn others merely by his stare, heightening the scene’s tension.