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Shloka 86

Devanagari script

अक्षौहिण्यस्तथा तिस्रो धार्तराष्ट्रस्य संहता: । क़्ुद्धेन भीमसेनेन नरसिंहेन वारिता:

Transliteration

akṣauhiṇyastathā tisro dhārtarāṣṭrasya saṃhatāḥ | kruddhena bhīmasenena narasiṃhena vāritāḥ ||

Translation

Dijo Sañjaya: Así, tres akṣauhiṇīs completas de las fuerzas de Dhṛtarāṣṭra, apiñadas en formación, fueron contenidas y detenidas por el airado Bhīmasena, león entre los hombres.

Word by Word

अक्षौहिण्यःarmies (akṣauhiṇīs)

तथाalso/likewise

तिस्रःthree

धार्तराष्ट्रस्यof Dhṛtarāṣṭra / of the Dhārtarāṣṭras

संहताःmassed together, assembled

क्रुद्धेनby the enraged (one)

भीमसेनेनby Bhīmasena

नरसिंहेनby the man-lion (hero)

वारिताःwere checked/held back

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīmasena (Bhīma)

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (as ‘Dhārtarāṣṭra’—his forces/Kauravas)

three akṣauhiṇīs (Kaurava army divisions)

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 concentrated resolve and martial excellence can halt even overwhelming force; ethically, it also shows how anger (krodha) becomes a powerful battlefield driver, intensifying violence and testing self-mastery within kṣatriya-dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that three akṣauhiṇīs of the Kaurava host, gathered together, were nevertheless stopped in their advance by Bhīma, who—fighting in fury—acts like a ‘lion among men’ and blocks their movement.