Shloka 54

Duryodhana’s Post-Duel Lament and Instructions (भग्नसक्थस्य विलापः)

Devanagari script

जानासि च महाबाहो धर्मराजस्य या त्वयि

Transliteration

jānāsi ca mahābāho dharmarājasya yā tvayi

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “O mighty-armed one, you already know the regard and trust that Dharmarāja bears toward you.”

Word by Word

• जानासि: you know
• Type: Verb
• Root: ज्ञा (जानाति)
• Form: लट् (Present), मध्यम (2nd), एकवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• महाबाहो: O mighty-armed one
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाबाहु
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative), एकवचन

• धर्मराजस्य: of Dharmaraja (Yudhishthira)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्मराज
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (Genitive), एकवचन

• या: which (she/that)
• या: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), एकवचन

• त्वयि: in you / towards you
• त्वयि: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद्
• Form: —, सप्तमी (Locative), एकवचन

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Dharmarāja (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• mahābāhu (addressee, unspecified in this half-verse)