Shloka 49

Cakravyūha-saṃkalpaḥ, Saṃśaptaka-āhvānaṃ, Saubhadra-vikrīḍitam

Drona Parva, Adhyāya 32

Devanagari script

तेषामुत्पतितान्‌ कांश्चित्‌ पतितांश्व पराड़मुखान्‌

Transliteration

teṣām utpatitān kāṁścit patitāṁś ca parāṅmukhān

Translation

Sañjaya said: Of those warriors, some were seen springing up again, while others had fallen and lay turned away in flight—an image of a battle where courage and collapse alternate, and where fear can drive even armed men to abandon their duty.

Word by Word

• तेषाम्: of them
• तेषाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, plural

• उत्पतितान्: having sprung up / leapt up
• उत्पतितान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उत्-√पत् (पत् गतौ)
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• कांश्चित्: some (of them)
• कांश्चित्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम् + चित्
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• पतितान्: fallen
• पतितान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √पत् (पत् गतौ)
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

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

• पराङ्मुखान्: turned away / facing away
• पराङ्मुखान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पराङ्मुख
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya