Shloka 176

Devanagari script

उद्वृत्तानां यथा शब्द: समुद्राणां युगक्षये । अर्जुनके प्रति आक्रमण करते हुए उन वीरोंका सिंहनाद उसी प्रकार सुनायी पड़ा

Transliteration

udvṛttānāṃ yathā śabdaḥ samudrāṇāṃ yugakṣaye | arjunakaṃ prati ākramaṇaṃ kurvatāṃ teṣāṃ vīrāṇāṃ siṃhanādaḥ sa tathā śrūyate, yathā pralayakāle svāṃ maryādāṃ vihāya vardhamānānāṃ samudrāṇāṃ bhīṣaṇā garjanā śrūyate |

Translation

Sañjaya dit : Comme, à la fin d’un âge, les océans—jetant bas leurs limites—se soulèvent dans un rugissement terrifiant, ainsi retentit le cri de guerre, pareil au lion, de ces héros lorsqu’ils s’élancèrent pour assaillir Arjuna. L’image souligne la puissance écrasante, ébranlant le monde, de la guerre lorsque la retenue s’effondre et que la destruction semble enfler sans mesure.

Word by Word

• उद्वृत्तानाम्: of (those) overflowing / risen beyond bounds
• उद्वृत्तानाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उद्वृत्त
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• यथा: as, just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• शब्दः: sound, roar
• शब्दः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शब्द
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• समुद्राणाम्: of the oceans
• समुद्राणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: समुद्र
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• युगक्षये: at the end of an age (world-dissolution)
• युगक्षये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युगक्षय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Arjuna
• oceans (samudrāḥ)
• yugakṣaya (end of the age)
• pralaya (cosmic dissolution)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses cosmic dissolution imagery to highlight how war magnifies when maryādā (restraint and limits) collapses; it implicitly warns that abandoning bounds—ethical or natural—unleashes overwhelming, destructive force.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that warriors advancing to attack Arjuna raised such a thunderous lion-cry that it resembled the fearsome roar of oceans swelling beyond their limits at the end of an age.