Shloka 65

Duryodhana’s Śaraṇāgati and the Pāṇḍavas’ Resolve

Gandharva Encounter

Devanagari script

निकृत्तयोधनागाश्चं कृत्तायुधमहारथम्‌

Transliteration

nikṛttayodhanāgāś ca kṛttāyudhamahāratham

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya dijo: «Y había elefantes de guerra cuyos guerreros habían sido cercenados, y un gran combatiente de carro al que le habían hecho pedazos las armas.» La línea evoca el sombrío clima moral de la batalla—poder y destreza reducidos a impotencia—y subraya la advertencia recurrente del Mahābhārata sobre el costo ruinoso de la violencia y la fragilidad del orgullo marcial.

Word by Word

• निकृत्त: cut down, slain
• निकृत्त: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नि√कृत् (कृत्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• योधनागाः: war-elephants (battle-elephants)
• योधनागाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: योधनाग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• कृत्त: cut off, severed
• कृत्त: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √कृत् (कृत्त)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आयुध: weapon
• आयुध: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आयुध
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• महारथम्: great chariot-warrior
• महारथम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महारथ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• war-elephants (nāgāḥ)
• great chariot-warrior (mahārathaḥ)
• weapons (āyudhāni)