Shloka 32

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

Adhyāya 31

Devanagari script

शल्य उवाच अवमन्यसि गान्धारे ध्रुवं च परिशड्कसे । यन्मां ब्रवीषि विश्रब्धं सारथ्यं क्रियतामिति,शल्यने कहा--गान्धारीपुत्र! तुम मेरा अपमान कर रहे हो, निश्चय ही तुम्हारे मनमें मेरे प्रति संदेह है, तभी तुम निर्भय होकर कह रहे हो कि आप “*सारथिका कार्य कीजिये' इति श्रीमहा भारते कर्णपर्वणि शल्यसारथ्ये द्वात्रिंशोडध्याय:

Transliteration

śalya uvāca | avamanyasi gāndhāre dhruvaṃ ca pariśaṅkase | yan māṃ bravīṣi viśrabdhaṃ sārathyaṃ kriyatām iti ||

Translation

Śalya said: “O son of Gāndhārī, you are slighting me, and surely you harbor suspicion toward me. That is why you speak to me so boldly, saying, ‘Perform the office of charioteer for me.’”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'śalya uvāca', 'definition': 'Śalya said'}, {'term': 'avamanyasi', 'definition': 'you disrespect, you slight, you treat with contempt'}, {'term': 'gāndhāre', 'definition': 'O son of Gāndhārī (vocative

• i.e., a Kaurava prince, here addressed pointedly)'}, {'term': 'dhruvam', 'definition': 'surely, certainly'}, {'term': 'ca', 'definition': 'and'}, {'term': 'pariśaṅkase', 'definition': 'you suspect, you mistrust, you are apprehensive about'}, {'term': 'yat', 'definition': 'because, since

• that which'}, {'term': 'mām', 'definition': 'me'}, {'term': 'bravīṣi', 'definition': 'you say, you speak'}, {'term': 'viśrabdham', 'definition': 'confidently, without hesitation

• familiarly'}, {'term': 'sārathyam', 'definition': 'the role/duty of a charioteer'}, {'term': 'kriyatām', 'definition': 'let it be done

• please do (imperative/passive sense)'}, {'term': 'iti', 'definition': 'thus, so (quotative particle)'}]

Speaker

शल्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śalya
• Gāndhārī (as ‘son of Gāndhārī’)