Shloka 203

अध्याय ३: कृपस्य दुर्योधनं प्रति नीत्युपदेशः

Kṛpa’s Counsel to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

पज्चविंशतिसाहस्रा: प्राद्रवनू शनकैरिव । माननीय नरेश! उस समय हाथी, घोड़े और रथोंसे रहित पचीस हजार पैदल सैनिक धीरे-ही-धीरे पाण्डवोंपर चढ़ाई करने लगे

Transliteration

pañcaviṁśatisāhasrāḥ prādravanū śanakair iva | mānanīya nareśa! tadā hastī-aśva-ratha-rahitāḥ pañcaviṁśati-sahasrāḥ padātayaḥ śanaiḥ-śanaiḥ pāṇḍavān abhyadravan |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O venerable king, at that time twenty-five thousand foot-soldiers—deprived of elephants, horses, and chariots—advanced against the Pāṇḍavas, moving as if slowly and steadily.”

Word by Word

• पञ्चविंशतिसाहस्राः: twenty-five-thousand (in number)
• पञ्चविंशतिसाहस्राः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चविंशतिसाहस्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• प्राद्रवन्: ran forth / advanced
• प्राद्रवन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: द्रु
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Plural

• उ: and / indeed (emphatic particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उ

• शनकैः: slowly, gradually
• शनकैः: Karana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: शनकैस्

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

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• nareśa (Dhṛtarāṣṭra, implied addressee)
• Pāṇḍavas
• infantry (padātayaḥ)
• elephants
• horses
• chariots