Shloka 8

सर्पसत्रे हुतानां नागानां नामपरिगणनम् | Enumeration of Nāgas Consumed in the Sarpasatra Fire

Devanagari script

एवं शतसहस्राणि प्रयुतान्यर्बुदानि च । अवशानि विनष्टानि पन्नगानां तु तत्र वै,इस प्रकार लाखों, करोड़ों तथा अरबों सर्प वहाँ विवश होकर नष्ट हो गये

Transliteration

evam śatasahasrāṇi prayutāny arbudāni ca | avaśāni vinaṣṭāni pannagānāṁ tu tatra vai ||

Translation

Janamejaya said: “Thus, in that place, hundreds of thousands—indeed tens of millions and even hundreds of millions—of serpents, helpless and unable to resist, were destroyed.” The line underscores the grim ethical weight of a mass act of violence: when power is exercised without restraint, countless beings perish without agency, intensifying the moral urgency of examining vengeance and its consequences.

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

शतसहस्राणिhundreds of thousands

प्रयुतानिten-thousands (myriads)

अर्बुदानिarbuda-units (very large numbers)

चand

अवशानिhelpless, powerless

विनष्टानिdestroyed, perished

पन्नगानाम्of the serpents

तुbut, indeed

तत्रthere

वैindeed, surely

Speaker

जनमेजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Janamejaya

serpents (pannagāḥ / nāgāḥ)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes