Shloka 186

इन्द्रस्य पाण्डवैः समागमः

Indra’s Meeting with the Pāṇḍavas

Devanagari script

एकेन सहिता: सड्ख्ये रणे क्रोधवशा गणा: । 'धनेश्वर! एक मनुष्यने बलपूर्वक इस पर्वतको रौंद डाला है और युद्धमें क्रोधवश नामक राक्षसगणोंको मार भगाया है

Transliteration

ekena sahitāḥ saṅkhye raṇe krodhavaśā gaṇāḥ |

Translation

Dijo Vaiśampāyana: En lo más espeso de la batalla, bandas de seres—impulsadas por la ira—se mantuvieron unidas como una sola. El informe llevado a su señor fue que un solo hombre, por pura fuerza, había hollado la fortaleza de la montaña y había puesto en fuga a los rākṣasas enloquecidos de cólera, derribándolos y dispersándolos tras golpearlos. El episodio subraya que la ira sin freno conduce a la ruina, mientras que la fuerza disciplinada y la resolución pueden abatir incluso un poder que parece inexpugnable.

Word by Word

एकेनby one (person)

सहिता:united, together

सङ्ख्येin battle, in combat

रणेin war

क्रोधवशाःunder the sway of anger

गणाःgroups, troops

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dhan-eśvara (epithet; likely Kubera, by context)

a single man (unnamed in the given excerpt)

rākṣasa-gaṇas (bands of rākṣasas)

mountain (parvata)

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?

Anger (krodha) clouds judgment and weakens even organized forces; disciplined strength and resolve can overcome larger, wrath-driven groups. The ethical contrast is between uncontrolled passion and controlled power.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates a battlefield report: although the rākṣasa bands fought together under the sway of anger, a single man has forcefully overrun their mountain position and driven them away after defeating them.