Shloka 8

Bhīṣma–Jāmadagnya-saṃvādaḥ

Bhishma’s account of the encounter with Rāma Jāmadagnya

Devanagari script

कि त्वेवाहं विह्नल: सम्प्रदृश्य दिग्भ्य: सर्वास्ता महोल्का इवाग्ने: । नानारूपास्तेजसोग्रेण दीप्ता यथा<55दित्या द्वादश लोकसंक्षये,प्रलयकालके बारह सूर्योके समान भयंकर तेजसे प्रज्वलित अनेक रूपवाली तथा अग्निकी प्रचण्ड ज्वालाओंके समान धधकती हुई उन शक्तियोंको सब ओरसे आती देख मैं अत्यन्त विह्वल हो गया

Transliteration

kiṁ tv evāhaṁ vihvalaḥ sampradṛśya digbhyaḥ sarvāstā maholkā ivāgneḥ | nānārūpās tejasogreṇa dīptā yathādityā dvādaśa lokasaṁkṣaye pralayakālake ||

Translation

Bhishma said: “But when I beheld those powers rushing in from every direction—blazing like great firebrands from a raging fire, aflame with fierce radiance in many forms, terrible like the twelve suns that appear at the world’s dissolution—I was utterly shaken and overwhelmed.”

Word by Word

• {'kiṁ tu eva': 'but indeed

• however', 'aham': 'I', 'vihvalaḥ': 'bewildered, shaken, overwhelmed', 'sampradṛśya': 'having clearly seen

• upon beholding', 'digbhyaḥ': 'from the directions

• from all quarters', 'sarvāḥ': 'all (feminine plural)', 'tāḥ': 'those (feminine plural)', 'maholkāḥ': 'great firebrands

• blazing meteors/brands', 'iva': 'like

• as if', 'agneḥ': 'of fire', 'nānārūpāḥ': 'of many forms

• multiform', 'tejasā': 'with radiance

• with fiery energy', 'ugreṇa': 'fierce, dreadful, intense', 'dīptāḥ': 'blazing, shining', 'yathā': 'as

• like', 'ādityāḥ': 'suns (Ādityas)', 'dvādaśa': 'twelve', 'lokasaṁkṣaye': 'at the destruction of the worlds

• at cosmic dissolution', 'pralayakālake': 'at the time of pralaya (cosmic dissolution)'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Agni (fire)
• Adityas (suns)
• Directions (quarters)
• Pralaya (cosmic dissolution)