Shloka 24

सैन्यसंनिवेशः (Sainyasaṃniveśaḥ) — Deployment, Omens, and Yuddha-Dharma Conventions

Devanagari script

तयोस्तु 2242 : स तु संगम: । युगान्ते समनुप्राप्ते द्ययो: सागरयोरिव,दोनों सेनाओंका वह अद्भुत समागम प्रलयकाल आनेपर परस्पर मिलनेवाले दो समुद्रोंक समान जान पड़ता था

Transliteration

tayos tu sa tu saṅgamaḥ | yugānte samanuprāpte dyayoḥ sāgarayor iva |

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana dijo: El encuentro de aquellos dos ejércitos parecía maravilloso y sobrecogedor, como la confluencia de dos océanos cuando llega el fin de una era, insinuando un choque inevitable, nacido de conflictos acumulados y de adharma, capaz de estremecer el mundo.

Word by Word

तयोःof those two

तुbut/indeed

सःthat (he/it)

तुindeed

संगमःmeeting/confluence

युगान्तेat the end of an age

समनुप्राप्तेwhen (it) has arrived/come about

द्ययोःof two

सागरयोःof (two) oceans

इवlike/as if

Speaker

वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

two armies (Kaurava and Pāṇḍava forces, implied)

two oceans (simile)

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 frames the impending battle as a cosmic, age-ending convergence, implying that collective choices and accumulated adharma can make conflict feel inevitable and world-altering, not merely personal or political.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator describes the two opposing forces coming together on the battlefield; their encounter is compared to two seas meeting at the end of a yuga, emphasizing the scale and dread of the moment.