Shloka 19

Devanagari script

हर्षात्‌ तूर्यससहस्रेषु वाद्यमानेषु चानघ । अपश्याम महाराज भीमसेनं महाबलम्‌

Transliteration

harṣāt tūryasahasreṣu vādyamāneṣu cānagha | apaśyāma mahārāja bhīmasenaṁ mahābalam ||

Translation

Sañjaya dit : «Ô roi sans tache, tandis que des milliers de trompettes et d’autres instruments retentissaient dans un élan d’allégresse, alors, ô grand souverain, nous vîmes Bhīmasena, d’une force prodigieuse.»

Word by Word

• हर्षात्: from/through joy
• हर्षात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हर्ष
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• तूर्यसहस्रेषु: among thousands of musical instruments
• तूर्यसहस्रेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तूर्यसहस्र
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Plural

• वाद्यमानेषु: being played/sounded
• वाद्यमानेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वाद्य (√वद्/√वाद्)
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Plural, Present passive participle (शानच्), from causative sense 'to be played/sounded'

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

• अनघ: O sinless one
• अनघ: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनघ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• अपश्याम: we saw
• अपश्याम: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पश्
• Form: Imperfect (लङ्), First, Plural, Parasmaipada

• महाराज: O great king
• महाराज: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाराज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• भीमसेनम्: Bhimasena
• भीमसेनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीमसेन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• महाबलम्: mighty/very strong
• महाबलम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाबल
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahārāja (Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• Bhīmasena (Bhīma)
• tūrya (war/ceremonial instruments)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how intense collective emotion (harṣa) and martial ceremony (the sounding of instruments) frame the perception of heroic action; it implicitly points to the power of battlefield exhilaration and the kṣatriya ideal of strength, while reminding the listener to observe events with discernment amid the noise of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra that, amid the loud celebration of thousands of instruments, he and others saw the mighty Bhīma—presented as a prominent warrior on the battlefield at Kurukṣetra.