Shloka 15

द्रोण–धृष्टद्युम्नयुद्धवर्णनम्

Drona–Dhrishtadyumna Battle Description

Devanagari script

रुधिरस्य परीवाहै: पूरयित्वा सरांसि च | सर्वनिष्टादश द्वीपान्‌ वशमानीय भार्गव:

Transliteration

rudhirasya parīvāhaiḥ pūrayitvā sarāṃsi ca | sarvaniṣṭādaśa dvīpān vaśam ānīya bhārgavaḥ ||

Translation

Nārada dit : «Par des torrents et des chenaux de sang, il remplit aussi les lacs ; et, après avoir soumis à son pouvoir les dix-huit îles du monde, le Bhārgava (Paraśurāma) affermit sa domination.»

Word by Word

रुधिरस्यof blood

परीवाहैःwith streams/flows

पूरयित्वाhaving filled

सरांसिlakes/ponds

चand

सर्वall

निष्टादशeighteen (in number)

द्वीपान्islands/continents

वशम्control/subjection

आनीयhaving brought (into)

भार्गवःBhargava (descendant of Bhṛgu; Paraśurāma)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Bhārgava (Paraśurāma)

sarāṃsi (lakes)

aṣṭādaśa-dvīpa (the eighteen islands/continents)

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 the ethical burden of conquest won through bloodshed: power and subjugation can be achieved by violence, but such dominance is morally fraught and points to the destructive consequences of anger and vengeance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada describes the Bhārgava (Paraśurāma) as so violently triumphant that blood flows are said to fill lakes, and he is portrayed as subduing the traditional ‘eighteen dvīpas’—a hyperbolic image of world-wide domination.