Shloka 9

कर्णभीमसेनयुद्धम् | Karṇa–Bhīmasena Engagement

Chapter 111

Devanagari script

तां तामलम्बुषो राजन्‌ माययैव निजध्निवान्‌ | नरेश्वर! घटोत्कच युद्धस्थलमें जो-जो माया दिखाता, उसे अलम्बुष अपनी मायाद्वारा ही नष्ट कर देता था ।। तं॑ तथा युध्यमानं तु मायायुद्धविशारदम्‌

Transliteration

tāṃ tāṃlambuṣo rājan māyayaiva nijaghnivān | nareśvara! ghaṭotkaca yuddhasthale yaḥ-yaḥ māyāṃ darśayati, tāṃ tāṃ alambuṣaḥ svamāyayā eva naśayati sma || taṃ tathā yudhyamānaṃ tu māyāyuddhaviśāradaṃ |

Translation

Sanjaya said: O King, Alambuṣa countered each and every illusion by his own sorcery alone. O lord of men, whatever magical display Ghaṭotkaca produced on the battlefield, Alambuṣa neutralized it with a matching illusion. Thus, as that expert in magical warfare continued to fight in this manner…

Word by Word

• ताम्: that (her/it)
• ताम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• ताम्: that (again; each such)
• ताम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• अलम्बुषः: Alambuṣa (a rākṣasa)
• अलम्बुषः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अलम्बुष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• मायया: by illusion/magic
• मायया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: माया
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• एव: indeed/just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• निजघ्निवान्: he struck down/destroyed
• निजघ्निवान्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: निहन्
• Form: Periphrastic perfect (लिट्-परस्मैपद/परिप्रयोग), Third, Singular, Masculine, Nominative

• तम्: him
• तम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• तथा: thus/in that manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• युध्यमानम्: fighting
• युध्यमानम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: युध्
• Form: Present middle participle (शानच्), Masculine, Accusative, Singular

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

• मायायुद्धविशारदम्: skilled in magical warfare
• मायायुद्धविशारदम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मायायुद्धविशारद
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Alambuṣa
• Ghaṭotkaca
• yuddhasthala (battlefield)