Shloka 263

Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 125: Duryodhana’s despair and vow after Jayadratha’s fall (जयद्रथवधे दुर्योधनविलापः)

Devanagari script

चिच्छेद शतधा राजन्‌ निशितै: कड्कपत्रिभि: | राजन्‌! आपके पुत्रकी उस भयंकर शक्तिको उस समय सात्यकिने कंकपत्रयुक्त तीखे बाणोंद्वारा सौ टुकड़ोंमें खण्डित कर दिया

Transliteration

ciccheda śatadhā rājan niśitaiḥ kaṅkapatribhiḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya said: O King, at that moment Sātyaki, with razor-sharp arrows fletched with heron-feathers, cut your son’s dreadful missile into a hundred pieces—an act that displays both battlefield mastery and the grim ethic of war, where lethal force is met with swift counter-force to prevent greater harm.

Word by Word

• चिच्छेद: cut, severed
• Type: Verb
• Root: छिद्
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत), 3, singular, परस्मैपद

• शतधा: into a hundred parts, hundredfold
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: शतधा

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• निशितैः: with sharp (ones)
• निशितैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निशित
• Form: masculine/neuter, instrumental, plural

• कङ्कपत्रिभिः: with arrows having heron-feathers
• कङ्कपत्रिभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: कङ्कपत्रिन्
• Form: masculine/neuter, instrumental, plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sātyaki
• your son (Duryodhana’s side; Kaurava prince)
• śakti (missile/spear-weapon)
• arrows (kaṅkapatra-fletched)