Shloka 32

Devanagari script

उद्धूतत्वात्‌ तु रजस: प्रसेकाच्छोणितस्य च

Transliteration

uddhūtatvāt tu rajasaḥ prasekāc choṇitasya ca

Translation

Sañjaya berkata: Karena debu terhambur keras dan darah tercurah deras, pemandangan medan laga menjadi terselubung—menandai kedahsyatan perang serta harga moral yang berat dari pembantaian itu.

Word by Word

• उद्धूतत्वात्: from/owing to the being shaken up (agitation)
• उद्धूतत्वात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उद्धूतत्व (उद्-धू धातु + क्त; तद्धित -त्व)
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• रजसः: of dust/pollen
• Type: Noun
• Root: रजस्
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• प्रसेकात्: from the sprinkling/oozing/flow
• प्रसेकात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रसेक
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• शोणितस्य: of blood
• Type: Noun
• Root: शोणित
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Singular

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

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• dust (rajas)
• blood (śoṇita)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores how war’s reality is not heroic abstraction but a choking mixture of dust and blood—an ethical reminder that even when framed as duty, violence carries a heavy human cost and moral gravity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes the battlefield conditions: dust is kicked up in turmoil and blood is flowing, creating a grim, obscuring atmosphere that conveys the ferocity and chaos of the fighting.