Shloka 26

कर्णेन व्यूहविधानम् — Karṇa’s Battle Formation and the Pāṇḍava Counter-Plan

Adhyāya 31

Devanagari script

व | हे हि |: ; धप ७ ् * | सूर्यारुणौ यथा दृष्टवा तमो नश्यति मारिष । तथा नश्यन्तु कौन्तेया: सपठ्चाला: ससूंजया:

Transliteration

sūryāruṇau yathā dṛṣṭvā tamo naśyati māriṣa | tathā naśyantu kaunteyāḥ sapāñcālāḥ sasūñjayāḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O noble one, just as darkness vanishes when the Sun and the dawn are seen, so too may the sons of Kuntī—together with the Pāñcālas and with Sūñjaya—be brought to ruin.” In the moral atmosphere of the war, the verse frames the opposing host as ‘darkness’ to be dispelled, revealing how martial rhetoric can recast destruction as a kind of inevitable clearing away.

Word by Word

हेO! (vocative particle)

हिindeed, for

सूर्यthe sun (as one of the two)

अरुणौreddish, dawn-colored (two)

यथाjust as

दृष्ट्वाhaving seen

तमःdarkness

नश्यतिperishes, disappears

मारिषO noble one / O sir

तथाso, in the same way

नश्यन्तुlet (them) perish, may (they) be destroyed

कौन्तेयाःthe sons of Kunti (Pandavas)

सtogether with

पाञ्चालाःthe Panchalas

सtogether with

सृञ्जयाःthe Srinjayas

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Sūrya

Aruṇa (dawn)

Kaunteyāḥ (Pāṇḍavas)

Pāñcālāḥ (Pāñcālas)

Sūñjaya

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes