Shloka 8

अध्याय ७५ — दैव-पुरुषकार-समन्वयः

Reconciling Contingency and Human Effort

Devanagari script

यदीमे सहसा क्रुद्धे समेयातां शिले इव

Transliteration

yadīme sahasā kruddhe sameyātāṃ śile iva

Translation

If these men, suddenly inflamed with anger, were to rush together like two rocks colliding, the clash would be violent and ruinous—an outburst where wrath, not dharma, drives the outcome.

Word by Word

• यदि: if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदि

• इमे: these two
• इमे: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• सहसा: suddenly, violently
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सहसा

• क्रुद्धे: angry (two persons)
• क्रुद्धे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रुद्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• समेयाताम्: might come together, might meet
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-इ
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Dual, Parasmaipada

• शिले: two rocks
• शिले: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिला
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Dual

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

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīmasena
• rocks (śilā)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Unchecked anger makes people collide destructively, like stones striking each other; ethical action (dharma) requires restraint and deliberation rather than impulsive wrath.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīmasena speaks in a tense pre-war context, imagining (or warning) that if the opposing parties suddenly become enraged and meet head-on, the encounter will be as harsh and damaging as rocks crashing together.