Shloka 26

Devanagari script

ये वै षण्ढतिलास्तत्र भवितारोडद्य ते तिला: | हते वैकर्तने कर्णे सूतपुत्रे दुरात्मनि,“जो पाण्डव वहाँ थोथे तिलोंके समान नपुंसक कहे गये थे, वे दुरात्मा सूतपुत्र वैकर्तन कर्णके मारे जानेपर आज अच्छे तिल और शूरवीर सिद्ध होंगे

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | ye vai ṣaṇḍhatilās tatra bhavitāro ’dya te tilāḥ | hate vaikartane karṇe sūtaputre durātmani |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “Those very Pāṇḍavas who were there derided as ‘impotent like empty sesame seeds’ will today prove to be true ‘sesame’—men of real substance and valor—now that Karṇa, the charioteer’s son Vaikartana, that wicked one, has been slain.”

Word by Word

येwho (those who)

वैindeed

षण्ढतिलाःeunuch-like sesame (i.e., worthless/impotent men, 'eunuch-sesames')

तत्रthere

भवितारःwill become (ones destined to be)

उद्यtoday/now (as an emphatic temporal particle)

तेthey (those)

तिलाःsesame seeds

हतेwhen (he is) slain / upon being slain

वैकर्तनेin/when Vaikartana (Karna)

कर्णेin/when Karna

सूतपुत्रेin/when the charioteer’s son

दुरात्मनिin/when the evil-souled (one)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Pāṇḍavas

Karṇa (Vaikartana)

Sūtaputra (epithet of Karṇa)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes