Shloka 5

Devanagari script

शल्य उवाच मयाप्येतन्नरश्रेष्ठ बहुशो5मरसिंहयो:

Transliteration

śalya uvāca mayāpy etan naraśreṣṭha bahuśo ’marasimhayoḥ

Translation

શલ્યે કહ્યું—નરશ્રેષ્ઠ! અમરોમાં સિંહસમાન એવા તે બે વીરો વિષે આ વાત મેં પણ અનેકવાર સાંભળી છે.

Word by Word

• शल्यः: Shalya
• शल्यः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शल्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect (Paroksha), Third, Singular

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Instrumental, Singular

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• एतत्: this (thing)
• एतत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• नरश्रेष्ठ: O best of men
• नरश्रेष्ठ: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• बहुशः: many times, repeatedly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहुशस्

• अमर-सिंहयोः: of the two lion-like immortals / of the two lions among the immortals
• Type: Noun
• Root: अमर-सिंह
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Dual

Speaker

शल्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śalya
• naraśreṣṭha (addressed person, unspecified here)
• two 'lion-like' immortals (unnamed in this half-verse)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Śalya frames his counsel by appealing to well-known, repeatedly heard exemplars—invoking the authority of tradition and divine models to guide human conduct and judgment in a crisis.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Karṇa Parva context, Śalya is speaking to a warrior-leader and introduces a remembered account about two god-like, lion-hearted figures, preparing the ground for advice or comparison relevant to the unfolding battle.