Shloka 233

Adhyāya 14: Śalya’s Missile-Pressure and the Pāṇḍava Convergence (शल्यस्य शरवर्षम्)

Devanagari script

जीमूतयोर्यथा वृष्टिस्तपान्ते भरतर्षभ । महाराज! भरतश्रेष्ठ! जैसे वर्षा-ऋतुमें दो मेघखण्ड पानी बरसा रहे हों, उसी प्रकार उन दोनोंके बाणोंकी वहाँ अत्यन्त भयंकर वर्षा होने लगी

Transliteration

jīmūtayor yathā vṛṣṭis tapānte bharatarṣabha | mahārāja bharataśreṣṭha yathā varṣā-ṛtau dve meghakhaṇḍe pānīyaṃ varṣataḥ syātām tathā tayor bāṇānāṃ tatra atyanta-bhayankarā vṛṣṭir abhavat ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O bull among the Bharatas, O great king, best of the Bharata line—just as, at the end of the summer heat, two masses of cloud pour down rain in the rainy season, so too there arose there a most dreadful downpour of arrows from those two warriors.”

Word by Word

• जीमूतयोः: of (the) two clouds
• जीमूतयोः: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जीमूत
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Dual

• यथा: as, just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• वृष्टिः: rain, shower
• वृष्टिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृष्टि
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• तपः: in heat (summer heat)
• तपः: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपस्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अन्ते: at the end
• अन्ते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्त
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• भरतर्षभ: O bull among the Bharatas
• भरतर्षभ: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरत-ऋषभ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• Dhritarashtra (implied by mahārāja)
• Bharata lineage (bharatarṣabha, bharataśreṣṭha)
• clouds (jīmūta, megha)
• arrows (bāṇa)
• rainy season (varṣā-ṛtu)