Shloka 26

Droṇa’s Withdrawal, Death, and the Kaurava Rout (द्रोणनिधन-प्रसङ्गः)

Devanagari script

महावने दारुमये प्रदीप्ते यथा प्रभा भास्करस्यापि नश्येत्‌ । तथा तदा<5<सीद्‌ ध्वजिनी प्रदीप्ता महाभया भारत भीमरूपा,भरतनन्दन! जैसे सूखे काठके विशाल वनमें आग लग जानेपर वहाँ सूर्यकी भी प्रभा फीकी पड़ जाती है, उसी प्रकार उस समय अधिक प्रकाशसे प्रज्वलित होती हुई-सी आपकी भयानक सेना महान्‌ भय उत्पन्न करनेवाली प्रतीत होती थी

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | mahāvane dārumaye pradīpte yathā prabhā bhāskarasyāpi naśyet | tathā tadāsīd dhvajinī pradīptā mahābhayā bhārata bhīmarūpā bharatanandana |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “Just as, when a vast forest of dry timber is ablaze, even the radiance of the sun seems to fade there, so at that time your army—though appearing as if lit up with intense brilliance—looked terrifying, assuming a dreadful form and generating great fear, O descendant of Bharata.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'mahāvane', 'gloss': 'in a great forest'}, {'term': 'dārumaye', 'gloss': 'made of wood

• consisting of timber (dry fuel)'}, {'term': 'pradīpte', 'gloss': 'when kindled

• blazing'}, {'term': 'yathā', 'gloss': 'just as'}, {'term': 'prabhā', 'gloss': 'radiance, splendor'}, {'term': 'bhāskarasya', 'gloss': 'of the sun'}, {'term': 'api', 'gloss': 'even'}, {'term': 'naśyet', 'gloss': 'would vanish

• would be obscured'}, {'term': 'tathā', 'gloss': 'so

• in the same way'}, {'term': 'tadā', 'gloss': 'then

• at that time'}, {'term': 'āsīt', 'gloss': 'was

• appeared'}, {'term': 'dhvajinī', 'gloss': 'army

• host (lit. ‘bannered force’)'}, {'term': 'pradīptā', 'gloss': 'blazing

• shining intensely'}, {'term': 'mahābhayā', 'gloss': 'causing great fear

• exceedingly dreadful'}, {'term': 'bhārata', 'gloss': 'O Bhārata (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra)'}, {'term': 'bhīmarūpā', 'gloss': 'of terrible form

• frightful in appearance'}, {'term': 'bharatanandana', 'gloss': 'O joy of the Bharatas (honorific address)'}]

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied addressee: Bhārata/Bharatanandana)
• the Sun (Bhāskara)
• a great forest (mahāvana)
• the army (dhvajinī)