Shloka 39

भीष्म-पर्व अध्याय १०० — त्रिगर्त-आक्रमण, भीष्म-केन्द्रित पुनर्संयोजन, तथा शक्त्यस्त्र-विनिमय

Devanagari script

अहं सर्वान्‌ महाराज निहनिष्यामि सोमकान्‌ । पज्चालान्‌ केकयै: सार्थ करूषांश्वनेति भारत,“महाराज! भरतनन्दन! मैं केकयोंसहित सम्पूर्ण सोमकों, पांचालों और करूषोंको मार डालूँगा--आपकी यह बात सत्य हो। भारत! आप युद्धमें सामने आये हुए कुन्तीपुत्रों और महाधनुर्धर सोमकोंका वध कीजिये और ऐसा करके अपने वचनको सत्य कीजिये

Transliteration

ahaṁ sarvān mahārāja nihaniṣyāmi somakān | pāñcālān kekayaiḥ sārthaṁ karūṣāṁś caiva te bhārata ||

Translation

Karna said: “O great king, I shall slay all the Somakas—along with the Panchalas, and the Kekayas, and the Karushas as well, O Bharata.” In this vow Karna asserts his resolve to secure victory for his side by annihilating the principal allied clans of the Pandavas, framing mass killing as a pledge of loyalty and martial duty within the brutal ethics of war.

Word by Word

• {'ahaṁ': 'I', 'sarvān': 'all (of them), entire', 'mahārāja': 'O great king', 'nihaniṣyāmi': 'I shall strike down, I shall kill', 'somakān': 'the Somakas (a clan allied with the Pandavas

• often connected with the Panchalas)', 'pāñcālān': 'the Panchalas (Drupada’s people)', 'kekayaiḥ': 'with the Kekayas (a people/kingdom

• allies through kinship ties)', 'sārtham': 'together with, in company with', 'karūṣān': 'the Karushas (a people/region)', 'ca eva': 'and indeed/also', 'te': 'your/for you (contextual address)', 'bhārata': 'O Bharata (descendant of Bharata

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Karna
• Mahārāja (addressed king, i.e., Duryodhana in context)
• Somakas
• Panchalas
• Kekayas
• Karushas
• Bharata (dynastic epithet)