Shloka 276

Devanagari script

यत्र क्रीडितमस्माभिस्तदा राजन्‌ समागतै: । “राजकुमार! कौरवनरेश! न तो यह सभा है और न आचार्यका घर ही है जहाँ एकत्र होकर हम सब लोग खेला करते थे”

Transliteration

yatra krīḍitam asmābhis tadā rājan samāgataiḥ |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O King, this is not that assembly hall, nor the teacher’s house, where we princes once gathered together and played in carefree companionship. The scene before us is of a different order—one where the bonds of youth and kinship have been eclipsed by the hard demands of conflict and duty.”

Word by Word

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र

• क्रीडितम्: played (was played)
• क्रीडितम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्रीड्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), neuter nominative/accusative singular

• अस्माभिः: by us
• अस्माभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Pronoun, instrumental plural

• तदा: then, at that time
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, vocative singular

• समागतैः: having assembled, gathered
• समागतैः: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-गम्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), masculine instrumental plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by rājan)
• sabha (assembly hall, implied in the contextual gloss)
• ācārya-gṛha (teacher’s house, implied in the contextual gloss)
• rājakumāra (princes, implied in the contextual gloss)
• Kaurava king (implied in the contextual gloss)