Shloka 62

Devanagari script

मुसला इव मे घ्नन्ति नेमे बाणा: शिखण्डिन: । वज्रदण्डसमस्पर्शा वज्वेगदुरासदा:,"क्योंकि ये मेरे सुदृढ्ढ कवचको छेदकर मर्मस्थानोंमें आघात कर रहे हैं, ये बाण मेरे शरीरपर मुसलके समान चोट करते हैं। इनका स्पर्श वज़् और यमदण्डके समान असहा है। इनका वेग वज्रके समान होनेके कारण निवारण करना कठिन है। ये शिखण्डीके बाण कदापि नहीं

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

muṣalā iva me ghnanti neme bāṇāḥ śikhaṇḍinaḥ |

vajradaṇḍasamasparśā vajravegadurāsadāḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “These arrows of Śikhaṇḍin strike me like heavy clubs. Their touch is like a thunderbolt and the rod of death—unendurable—and their speed is like a thunderbolt, making them exceedingly hard to ward off.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'sañjaya uvāca', 'definition': 'Sañjaya said'}, {'term': 'muṣalāḥ', 'definition': 'clubs, pestles

• heavy bludgeons'}, {'term': 'iva', 'definition': 'like, as'}, {'term': 'me', 'definition': 'to/for me

• my'}, {'term': 'ghnanti', 'definition': 'they strike, smite, kill (here: strike hard)'}, {'term': 'ime', 'definition': 'these'}, {'term': 'bāṇāḥ', 'definition': 'arrows'}, {'term': 'śikhaṇḍinaḥ', 'definition': 'of Śikhaṇḍin (genitive: belonging to Śikhaṇḍin)'}, {'term': 'vajra', 'definition': 'thunderbolt

• also: diamond-like hardness'}, {'term': 'daṇḍa', 'definition': 'rod, staff

• punitive rod (also associated with Yama as chastiser)'}, {'term': 'sama-sparśāḥ', 'definition': 'having a touch comparable to

• equal in contact/impact'}, {'term': 'vajra-vega', 'definition': 'thunderbolt-like speed/impetus'}, {'term': 'durāsadāḥ', 'definition': 'hard to approach/assail

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Śikhaṇḍin
• bāṇa (arrows)
• muṣala (club/pestle)
• vajra (thunderbolt)
• daṇḍa (rod; implicitly Yama-daṇḍa)