Shloka 86

Devanagari script

तत: कर्णो महाराज प्रेषयामास सायकान्‌ | सुवर्णपुड्खाउछत्रुघ्नान्‌ खेचरान्‌ राक्षसान्‌ प्रति,महाराज! तदनन्तर कर्णने उन आकाशबचारी राक्षसोंको लक्ष्य करके सोनेके पंखवाले बहुत-से शत्रुनाशक बाण चलाये

Transliteration

tataḥ karṇo mahārāja preṣayāmāsa sāyakān | suvarṇapuṅkhān śatrughnān khecarān rākṣasān prati ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Then Karṇa, O King, discharged his arrows—golden-feathered and deadly to foes—aiming them at the rākṣasas who were moving through the sky. In the moral atmosphere of the war, the verse underscores Karṇa’s unwavering martial resolve: he responds to a supernatural threat not with hesitation but with immediate, forceful action, treating the aerial assailants as legitimate combatants on the battlefield.

Word by Word

• ततः: then, thereafter
• ततः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• कर्णः: Karna
• कर्णः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्ण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महाराज: O great king
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाराज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• प्रेषयामास: sent forth, discharged
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-इष्
• Form: Periphrastic Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Singular

• सायकान्: arrows
• सायकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सायक
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• सुवर्णपुड्खान्: having golden fletchings
• सुवर्णपुड्खान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुवर्ण-पुड्ख
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• शत्रुघ्नान्: enemy-slaying
• शत्रुघ्नान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शत्रुघ्न
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• खेचरान्: sky-goers (moving in the air)
• खेचरान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: खेचर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• राक्षसान्: Rakshasas
• राक्षसान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: राक्षस
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• प्रति: towards, against
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्रति

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Karṇa
• rākṣasas
• arrows (sāyaka)