Shloka 20

Devanagari script

तेषां तु पुरुषेन्द्राणां रुवतां रुदितस्वन:,वहाँ रोदन करते हुए उन पुरुषप्रवर पाण्डवोंके रोनेका शब्द महलके विस्तारसे अवरुद्ध हुए भूतल और आकाशकमें गूँजने लगा

Transliteration

teṣāṁ tu puruṣendrāṇāṁ ruvatāṁ ruditāsvaraḥ | mahālavistareṇāvaruddho bhūtale 'kāśe ca ghoṣam āgamat ||

Translation

Pero el sonido del llanto—alzándose de aquellos reyes, fuertes como toros, los más eminentes entre los hombres—aunque amortiguado y contenido por la vasta extensión del palacio, se derramó y resonó por la tierra y hasta el cielo. La escena subraya que el dolor, nacido de vidas atadas al deber y de una pérdida irreversible, no puede ser encerrado por muros ni por la grandeza real: se vuelve un lamento público, casi cósmico.

Word by Word

तेषाम्of them

तुbut/indeed

पुरुषेन्द्राणाम्of the best of men (kings/heroic men)

रुवताम्of (those) crying/roaring

रुदित-स्वनःthe sound of weeping (weeping-sound)

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Pāṇḍavas

palace (mahāla)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the inevitability and universality of sorrow: even royal power and physical barriers cannot contain the consequences of loss. It implicitly points toward vairāgya (dispassion) and the ethical gravity of dharma-bound actions whose outcomes must be endured.

What is happening in the narrative?

The foremost men—identified in context as the Pāṇḍavas—are crying aloud. Their lament, though muffled by the palace’s vast structure, still reverberates widely, echoing across earth and sky, emphasizing the intensity of their grief.