Shloka 106

Devanagari script

चेष्टन्तो विविधाश्रैष्टा व्यदृश्यन्त महाहवे । कुरुश्रेष्ठ! बाणोंके आघातसे कटे हुए योद्धा उस महासमरमें अनेक प्रकारकी चेष्टाएँ करते और छटपटाते दिखायी देते थे

Transliteration

ceṣṭanto vividhāḥ śreṣṭhā vyadṛśyanta mahāhave | kuruśreṣṭha bāṇānām āghātāt kaṭitā yoddhāḥ tasmin mahāsamare nānāvidhāś ceṣṭāḥ kurvantaḥ chaṭpaṭāyanta iva vyadṛśyanta |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O best of the Kurus, in that great battle the foremost warriors—cut down by the impact of arrows—were seen making many kinds of involuntary movements, writhing and struggling in agony. The scene laid bare the brutal cost of war, where even the mighty are reduced to helpless suffering.”

Word by Word

• चेष्टन्तः: acting, making movements
• चेष्टन्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: चेष्ट्
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• विविधाः: various
• विविधाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विविध
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• श्रैष्टाः: excellent, foremost
• श्रैष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्रैष्ठ
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• व्यदृश्यन्त: were seen, appeared
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश्
• Form: लङ् (अनद्यतन भूत), आत्मनेपद, प्रथम, बहुवचन

• महाहवे: in the great battle
• महाहवे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाहव
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by 'kuruśreṣṭha')
• arrows (bāṇāḥ)
• warriors (yoddhāḥ)
• the great battle (mahāhava/mahāsamara)