Shloka 21

शल्यपर्व — चतुर्विंशोऽध्यायः | Śalya Parva, Chapter 24: Disruption of Kaurava Formations and the Elephant Encirclement

Devanagari script

उक्त भीष्मेण यद्‌ वाक्‍्यं हितं तथ्यं च माधव । तच्चापि नासौ कृतवान्‌ वीतबुद्धिः सुयोधन:

Transliteration

uktaṃ bhīṣmeṇa yad vākyaṃ hitaṃ tathyaṃ ca mādhava | taccāpi nāsau kṛtavān vītabuddhiḥ suyodhanaḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O Mādhava, the counsel spoken by Bhīṣma—beneficial and true—was not acted upon by that Suyodhana, whose judgment had been swept away.”

Word by Word

उक्तम्spoken, said

भीष्मेणby Bhishma

यत्which

वाक्यम्speech, statement

हितम्beneficial

तथ्यम्true, factual

चand

माधवO Madhava (Krishna)

तत्that

चalso/and

अपिalso, even

नnot

असौthat man (he)

कृतवान्did, carried out

वीतबुद्धिःone whose understanding is gone (bewildered)

सुयोधनःSuyodhana (Duryodhana)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

स

संजय (Sañjaya)

भ

भीष्म (Bhīṣma)

म

माधव (Mādhava/Kṛṣṇa)

स

सुयोधन (Suyodhana/Duryodhana)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes