Shloka 24

कर्णनिधनवृत्तान्तनिवेदनम् | Reporting Karṇa’s Fall to Yudhiṣṭhira

Devanagari script

स कथं भ्रातरं ज्येष्ठं राजानं धर्मकोविदम्‌ | हन्याद्‌ भवान्‌ नरश्रेष्ठ प्राकृतो5न्य: पुमानिव,नरश्रेष्ठ) तुम दूसरे गवाँर मनुष्यके समान अपने बड़े भाई धर्मज्ञ नरेशका वध कैसे करोगे?

Transliteration

sa kathaṁ bhrātaraṁ jyeṣṭhaṁ rājānaṁ dharmakovidam | hanyād bhavān naraśreṣṭha prākṛto 'nyaḥ pumān iva ||

Translation

How could you, O best of men, kill your elder brother—the king who is skilled in dharma—like some other ordinary, uncultured man?

Word by Word

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कथम्: how
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्

• भ्रातरम्: brother
• भ्रातरम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: भ्रातृ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• ज्येष्ठम्: elder
• ज्येष्ठम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ज्येष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• राजानम्: king
• राजानम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• धर्मकोविदम्: skilled in dharma
• धर्मकोविदम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धर्मकोविद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• हन्यात्: would/should kill
• Type: Verb
• Root: हन्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• भवान्: you (honorific)
• भवान्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: भवत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नरश्रेष्ठ: O best of men
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• प्राकृतः: uncultured/common
• प्राकृतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्राकृत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अन्यः: another/other
• अन्यः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अन्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• पुमान्: man
• पुमान्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुमांस्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• इव: like/as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

Speaker

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Kṛṣṇa
• elder brother (jyeṣṭha-bhrātṛ; implied Yudhiṣṭhira/Dharmarāja by epithet)
• king (rājā)