Shloka 276

Nakula–Śakuni Duel and the Night Battle; Śikhaṇḍin–Kṛpa Engagement (नकुल-शकुनियुद्धं तथा रात्रियुद्धवर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

व्यष्टम्भयेतामन्योन्यं प्राणद्यूताभिदेविनौ । प्राणोंकी बाजी लगाकर युद्धका जूआ खेलनेवाले वे दोनों वीर एक-दूसरेके अंगोंको विदीर्ण करते और खून बहाते हुए एक-दूसरेको रोकने लगे

Transliteration

vyaṣṭambhayetām anyonyaṃ prāṇadyūtābhidevinau | prāṇān kī bājī lagākara yuddha-kā jūā khelanevāle ve donoṃ vīra eka-dūsare-ke aṅgoṃ-ko vidīrṇa karate aura khūna bahāte hue eka-dūsare-ko rokane lage |

Translation

Sañjaya said: Those two heroes, as if presiding deities of a deadly wager where life itself was the stake, checked one another. Tearing each other’s limbs and spilling blood, they fought to halt the other’s advance—war reduced to a grim game in which the price was breath and the measure was endurance.

Word by Word

• व्यष्टम्भयेताम्: they two checked/stopped (each other)
• व्यष्टम्भयेताम्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्तम्भ् (धातु)
• Form: लङ् (imperfect), परस्मैपदम्, प्रथम, द्विवचनम्

• अन्योन्यम्: each other, mutually
• अन्योन्यम्: Karma
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्योन्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: परस्परार्थक-अव्यय

• प्राणद्यूताभिदेविनौ: the two who were gamblers staking their lives (in battle)
• प्राणद्यूताभिदेविनौ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण-द्यूत-अभिदेविन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, द्विवचनम्

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• two warriors (unnamed in this verse)