Shloka 39

Cakravyūha-saṃkalpaḥ, Saṃśaptaka-āhvānaṃ, Saubhadra-vikrīḍitam

Drona Parva, Adhyāya 32

Devanagari script

ते त्वार्यधर्मसंरब्धा दुर्निवारा दुरासदा:

Transliteration

te tv āryadharmasaṃrabdhā durnivārā durāsadāḥ

Translation

Sanjaya said: But those men, stirred and bound by the code of noble duty, were not to be held back and were hard to approach—unyielding in their resolve to act as they deemed righteous amid the press of war.

Word by Word

• ते: they (those)
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तु: but, however
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• आर्यधर्मसंरब्धाः: impelled/roused by noble duty
• आर्यधर्मसंरब्धाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आर्यधर्मसंरब्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• दुर्निवाराः: hard to restrain
• दुर्निवाराः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दुर्निवार
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• दुरासदाः: hard to assail/approach
• दुरासदाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दुरासद
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• those warriors (unspecified group)