Shloka 36

Yuddha-yajña-vyākhyāna (The Battle as Sacrifice): Ambarīṣa–Indra Saṃvāda

Devanagari script

वेदिर्यस्य त्वमित्राणां शिरोभ्यश्न प्रकीर्यते

Transliteration

vedir yasya tvamitrāṇāṃ śirobhyaśna prakīryate

Translation

Ambarīṣa said: “You are the sacrificial altar for your enemies—upon the heads of those foes you are strewn and heaped, as if the very rite of their downfall were being performed.”

Word by Word

• वेदीः: altar (as the subject)
• वेदीः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वेदी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• यस्य: whose
• यस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Nominative, Singular

• मित्राणाम्: of friends
• मित्राणाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मित्र
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• शिरोभ्यः: from (their) heads
• शिरोभ्यः: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिरस्
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Plural

• अश्न: eat / consume
• अश्न: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: अश्
• Form: Imperative (Lot), 2nd, Singular

• प्रकीर्यते: is scattered / is strewn
• प्रकीर्यते: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + कृ
• Form: Present (Lat), 3rd, Singular, Passive (Karmani)

Speaker

अम्बरीष उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Ambarīṣa
• enemies (amitra)
• altar (vedi)