Shloka 6

Devanagari script

हतेषु तेषु वीरेषु प्रदुद्राव बलं तव

Transliteration

hateṣu teṣu vīreṣu pradudrāva balaṃ tava

Translation

Sañjaya said: When those heroes had been slain, your army broke and fled—its courage collapsing in the face of that destruction.

Word by Word

• हतेषु: when (they were) slain
• हतेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हत (√हन्)
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• तेषु: in/among those
• तेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• वीरेषु: among the heroes
• वीरेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वीर
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• प्रदुद्राव: ran forth / fled away
• प्रदुद्राव: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + √द्रु (द्रवति)
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular

• बलम्: the army/force
• बलम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: बल
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• तव: of you / your
• तव: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by 'tava')
• Kaurava army (bala)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Martial strength is fragile when rooted only in numbers and pride; once key warriors fall, fear spreads and an army’s cohesion dissolves, revealing the ethical cost and instability inherent in war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that after certain prominent heroes were killed, the Kaurava forces lost heart and fled from the battlefield.