Shloka 246

भीष्मस्य अप्रतिमपराक्रमः — शिखण्डिपुरस्कृतः प्रहारः

Bhīṣma’s unmatched momentum and the assault with Śikhaṇḍin in the lead

Devanagari script

अवारयन्त संहृष्टास्तावका: पुरुषर्षभा: । युद्धमें प्रलयकालीन जलप्रवाहके समान आते हुए उन वीरोंको आपकी सेनाके श्रेष्ठ पुरुषोंने हर्ष और उत्साहमें भरकर रोका

Transliteration

avārayanta saṁhṛṣṭās tāvakāḥ puruṣarṣabhāḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya dijo: Tus mejores guerreros, exultantes y llenos de ardor, contuvieron a aquellos héroes que se abalanzaban como torrentes de agua en el tiempo de la disolución cósmica.

Word by Word

• अवारयन्त: they restrained / checked
• अवारयन्त: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: वारय् (√वृ, caus.)
• Form: लङ् (imperfect), परस्मैपद, 3, plural

• संहृष्टाः: delighted, exhilarated
• संहृष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: संहृष्ट (from √हृष्)
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• तावकाः: your (men), belonging to you
• तावकाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तावक
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• पुरुषर्षभाः: bulls among men; best of men
• पुरुषर्षभाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरुष-ऋषभ
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• tāvakāḥ (Kaurava forces)
• puruṣarṣabhāḥ (elite warriors)
• pralaya-kālīna jalapravāha (deluge at dissolution, as a simile)