Shloka 16

Devanagari script

तस्यापि तुरगा: शीघ्रा हस्तिकाया: खरस्वना: । शतं युक्ता महाकाया मांसशोणितभोजना:,उसके रथमें जुते हुए घोड़े भी हाथीके समान मोटे शरीरवाले, शीघ्रगामी और गदहोंके समान उच्चस्वरसे हिनहिनानेवाले थे। उनकी संख्या सौ थी। वे विशालकाय अश्व मांस और रक्त भोजन करते थे

Transliteration

tasyāpi turagāḥ śīghrā hastikāyāḥ kharasvanāḥ | śataṁ yuktā mahākāyā māṁsaśoṇitabhojanāḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Even his chariot-horses were swift, huge-bodied like elephants, and loud-voiced like donkeys. A hundred of these great steeds were yoked, and they fed on flesh and blood—an image that heightens the grim, ferocious atmosphere of the war and signals the extreme, dehumanizing violence that has come to dominate the battlefield.

Word by Word

तस्यof him/its

अपिalso/even

तुरगाःhorses

शीघ्राःswift

हस्तिकायाःof elephant-like body / of an elephant-bodied (one)

खरस्वनाःhaving donkey-like sound (loud-neighing)

शतम्a hundred

युक्ताःyoked/harnessed

महाकायाःhuge-bodied

मांसशोणितभोजनाःfeeding on flesh and blood

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

turagāḥ (horses)

ratha (chariot, implied by yuktāḥ)

hastin (elephant, as comparison)

khara (donkey, as comparison)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes