Shloka 10

भीष्मशिबिरगमनम् — Duryodhana’s Visit to Bhīṣma’s Camp and the Command Appeal

Devanagari script

स नागलोके संवृद्धो मात्रा च परिरक्षित: । पितृव्येण परित्यक्तः: पार्थद्वेषाद्‌ दुरात्मना,वह नागलोकमें ही माताद्वारा पाल-पोसकर बड़ा किया गया और सब प्रकारसे वहीं उसकी रक्षा की गयी थी। उस बालकके किसी दुरात्मा वयोवृद्ध सम्बन्धीने अर्जुनके प्रति द्वेष होनेके कारण इनके उस पुत्रको त्याग दिया था

Transliteration

sa nāgaloke saṁvṛddho mātrā ca parirakṣitaḥ | pitṛvyeṇa parityaktaḥ pārthadveṣād durātmanā ||

Translation

Sañjaya dijo: Fue criado en el reino de los Nāgas, y allí su madre lo protegió de todas las maneras. Pero un tío paterno, de alma perversa, movido por el odio hacia Pārtha (Arjuna), abandonó a aquel niño.

Word by Word

सःhe/that one

नागलोकेin the world of the Nāgas

संवृद्धःgrown up, brought up

मात्राby (his) mother

चand

परिरक्षितःprotected, guarded

पितृव्येणby the paternal uncle

परित्यक्तःabandoned, forsaken

पार्थद्वेषात्from hatred of Pārtha (Arjuna)

दुरात्मनाby a wicked person

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Nāgaloka

Mother (of the child)

Pitṛvya (paternal uncle)

Pārtha (Arjuna)

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 how personal hatred can corrupt familial responsibility: abandoning a dependent child out of enmity toward someone else is portrayed as the act of a durātmā (evil-minded person), contrasting protection (rakṣaṇa) with adharma-driven neglect.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya explains that a certain child was raised safely in Nāgaloka under his mother’s care, but later a paternal uncle—motivated by hostility toward Arjuna—rejected and abandoned the child.