Shloka 59

Devanagari script

केचिदन्यत्र गच्छन्त: पथि चान्यैरुपद्गुता:

Transliteration

kecid anyatra gacchantaḥ pathi cānyair upadrutāḥ

Translation

Bhīmasena said: “Some, trying to flee elsewhere, were on the road assailed and harried by others.”

Word by Word

• केचित्: some (people)
• केचित्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: क (प्रातिपदिक: किम्-शब्द)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• अन्यत्र: elsewhere
• अन्यत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्यत्र

• गच्छन्तः: going
• गच्छन्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम् (धातु)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural, शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त, परस्मैपदी)

• पथि: on the road/way
• पथि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पथिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अन्यैः: by others / with others
• अन्यैः: Karana
• Type: Pronoun/Adjective
• Root: अन्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• उपद्रुताः: harassed/assailed
• उपद्रुताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उपद्रुत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; उप + द्रु/द्रव्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural, क्त (भूतकर्मणि/निष्पन्न विशेषण)

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīmasena

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how, in war, fear and disorder spread quickly: even those attempting to escape become vulnerable to further harm. Ethically, it underscores the destructive, cascading nature of violence once dharma is eclipsed by panic and aggression.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīma describes a battlefield scene where combatants or followers try to flee to other places, but are intercepted and attacked on the roads by opposing groups (or other hostile forces), intensifying the rout and confusion.