Shloka 536
Devanagari script
चकार भार्गवो राजन् महीं शोणितकर्दमाम् | राजन! परम क्रोधी परशुरामने सहस्रों हैहयोंका वध करके इस पृथ्वीपर रक्तकी कीच मचा दी
Transliteration
cakāra bhārgavo rājan mahīṃ śoṇita-kardamām |
Translation
Vāsudeva dit : « Ô roi, le Bhārgava (Paraśurāma) fit de la terre un bourbier de sang — tant sa colère était farouche — après avoir tué des milliers de Haihayas. »
Word by Word
चकारmade; did
चकार:
TypeVerb
Rootकृ
Formलिट् (परस्मैपद), 3, singular
भार्गवःBhargava (Parashurama)
भार्गवः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभार्गव
Formmasculine, nominative, singular
राजन्O king
राजन्:
TypeNoun
Rootराजन्
Formmasculine, vocative, singular
महीम्the earth
महीम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootमही
Formfeminine, accusative, singular
शोणितकर्दमाम्muddy with blood
शोणितकर्दमाम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootशोणितकर्दमा
Formfeminine, accusative, singular
Speaker
वासुदेव उवाच
Characters & Entities
V
Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)B
Bhārgava (Paraśurāma)T
the King (rājan)E
Earth (mahī)H
HaihayasCharacter Dynamics
Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
War Context
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Geographic Context
Meter (Chandas)
Sandhi Notes
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the destructive moral and social consequences of uncontrolled anger: wrath can turn righteous grievance into indiscriminate devastation, staining the very earth with violence.
Vāsudeva recalls Paraśurāma’s furious campaign against the Haihayas, describing how, after killing thousands of them, he left the land drenched and churned into a ‘mire of blood’—a vivid image of mass slaughter.