Shloka 47

Adhyāya 141 — Night duels: Śaineya and Bhūriśravas; Droṇi and Ghaṭotkaca; Bhīma and Duryodhana

Devanagari script

तयोर्विसृजतोस्तत्र शरजालानि मारिष

Transliteration

tayor visṛjatostatra śarajālāni māriṣa

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O venerable one, as those two warriors there kept releasing their missiles, volleys of arrows spread out like nets, thickly filling the battlefield.”

Word by Word

• तयोः: of those two
• तयोः: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, dual

• विसृजतोः: (while) the two were releasing/letting fly
• विसृजतोः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-√सृज्
• Form: present, third, dual, parasmaipada

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• शरजालानि: nets/volleys of arrows
• शरजालानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरजाल
• Form: neuter, accusative, plural

• मारिष: O noble one / O sir
• मारिष: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मारिष
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• two warriors (unspecified in this half-verse)
• arrows (śara)
• arrow-nets/volleys (śarajālāni)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the overwhelming intensity of war: when skilled fighters unleash weapons without restraint, violence multiplies and engulfs the field like a net—an implicit reminder of the destructive momentum of conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a duel in which two combatants are continuously shooting, producing dense, interlacing volleys of arrows that cover the battlefield.