Shloka 453

Devanagari script

निरर्जुनां वा पृथिवीं केशवानुचरिष्यसि । “केशव! या तो आज इस पृथ्वीको धृतराष्ट्रपुत्रोंसे सूनी करके अपने भाईके अधिकारमें दे दूँगा या आप अर्जुनरहित पृथ्वीपर विचरेंगे

Transliteration

nirarjunāṃ vā pṛthivīṃ keśavānucariṣyasi |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “Or will you, Keśava, wander upon a world bereft of Arjuna?” The line frames the war’s moral extremity: the struggle is envisioned not merely as a contest for territory, but as a crisis in which the very order of the earth is imagined as emptied of its rightful protector, forcing Kṛṣṇa to move through a desolate realm where dharma’s champion has fallen.

Word by Word

• निः: without; free from
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: निः

• अर्जुनाम्: Arjuna-less (earth) / without Arjuna
• अर्जुनाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्जुना (अर्जुन)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• वा: or
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वा

• पृथिवीम्: the earth
• पृथिवीम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• केशव: O Keshava
• Type: Noun
• Root: केशव
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• अनुचरिष्यसि: you will roam/follow (move about)
• अनुचरिष्यसि: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनु-चर्
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), Second, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Keśava (Kṛṣṇa)
• Arjuna
• Pṛthivī (the Earth)