Shloka 426

Devanagari script

हन्ता ज्वलनसंकाशै: शरै: सर्पविषोपमै: । “श्रीकृष्ण! आज मैं युद्धस्थलमें कर्णके पीछे चलनेवाले दीन-हीन सैनिकोंको सर्पविष और अग्निके समान बाणोंद्वारा भस्म कर डालूँगा

Transliteration

hantā jvalanasaṅkāśaiḥ śaraiḥ sarpaviṣopamaiḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “I shall strike down—indeed, reduce to ashes—those wretched, dispirited soldiers who follow behind Karṇa on the battlefield, with arrows blazing like fire and deadly as serpent-venom.” The line conveys the ruthless escalation of martial resolve, where the speaker frames annihilation as a deliberate act within the brutal ethics of war.

Word by Word

• हन्ता: indeed; surely (exclamation/assurance)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हन्

• ज्वलन-संकाशैः: with (arrows) resembling fire/flame
• ज्वलन-संकाशैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ज्वलनसंकाश
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• शरैः: with arrows
• शरैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शर
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• सर्प-विष-उपमैः: with (arrows) comparable to snake-poison
• सर्प-विष-उपमैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्पविषोपम
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Karṇa
• Śrīkṛṣṇa
• arrows (śara)
• fire (jvalana)
• serpent-venom (sarpa-viṣa)
• battlefield