Shloka 8

Somadatta’s Kṣātra-Dharma Accusation; Night Combat, Māyā, and the Fall of Ghaṭotkaca

Droṇa-parva, Adhyāya 131

Devanagari script

न मे<र्जुनादू भयं तादृक्‌ कृष्णान्नापि च सात्वतात्‌ । हुतभुग्जन्मनो नैव याद्ग्भीमाद्‌ भयं मम,मुझे भीमसेनसे जैसा भय लगता है, वैसा न तो अर्जुनसे और न श्रीकृष्णसे, न सात्यकिसे और न धृष्टद्युम्नसे ही लगता है

Transliteration

na me 'rjunād bhayaṃ tādṛk kṛṣṇān nāpi ca sātvatāt | hutabhug-janmano naiva yādṛg bhīmād bhayaṃ mama ||

Translation

Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: “I do not feel such fear from Arjuna, nor from Kṛṣṇa, nor even from Sātyaki; nor indeed from Dhṛṣṭadyumna, the son of the Fire-god. The fear I feel is of Bhīmasena alone.”

Word by Word

नnot

मेof me / to me

अर्जुनात्from Arjuna

उindeed / even

भयम्fear

तादृक्such / of that kind

कृष्णात्from Krishna

नnot

अपिalso / even

चand

सात्वतात्from the Sātvata (Sātyaki)

हुतभुक्of the fire (Agni), the oblation-eater

जन्मनःof the born one / of the birth

नnot

एवindeed / just

यत्which / that (fear) which

भीमात्from Bhima

भयम्fear

ममof me / my

Speaker

धघतयाट्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Arjuna

Kṛṣṇa

Sātyaki

Dhṛṣṭadyumna

Agni (Hutabhuk)

Bhīmasena (Bhīma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes