Shloka 146

Devanagari script

सहस््रयामप्रतिमा बभूव प्राणहारिणी । यह तीन पहरकी रात उनके लिये सहसौरों प्रहरोंकी रात्रिके समान घोर, भयानक एवं प्राणहारिणी प्रतीत होती थी

Transliteration

sahasrayāmapratimā babhūva prāṇahāriṇī |

Translation

Sañjaya said: That night, though only three watches long, felt to them like a night of thousands of watches—grim, terrifying, and as if it were stealing away life itself. In the moral atmosphere of the war, fear and exhaustion magnified time, and the mind’s torment became as deadly as weapons.

Word by Word

• सहस्रयामप्रतिमा: having the likeness of a thousand yāmas (watches)
• सहस्रयामप्रतिमा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहस्र-याम-प्रतिमा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• बभूव: became/was
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• प्राणहारिणी: life-taking, deadly
• प्राणहारिणी: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्राणहारिन्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya