Shloka 61

Indratīrtha–Ādityatīrtha: Balarāma’s Ritual Bathing, Dāna, and Sacred-Historical Recollections

Devanagari script

पुष्पाणां भरतश्रेष्ठ दिव्यानां पुण्यगन्धिनाम्‌ । देवदुन्दुभयश्चापि नेदुस्तत्र महास्वना:

Transliteration

puṣpāṇāṃ bharataśreṣṭha divyānāṃ puṇyagandhinām | devadundubhayaś cāpi nedus tatra mahāsvanāḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “O best of the Bharatas, showers of celestial flowers, fragrant with holy perfume, were cast down; and there too the divine kettledrums resounded with a mighty roar.” The scene signals a solemn, otherworldly approval of a moment of great consequence, as if the cosmos itself bears witness to the moral weight of what has just occurred.

Word by Word

• पुष्पाणाम्: of flowers
• पुष्पाणाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुष्प
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरत-श्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• दिव्यानाम्: divine
• दिव्यानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिव्य
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• पुण्यगन्धिनाम्: having holy/fragrant scent
• पुण्यगन्धिनाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पुण्य-गन्धिन्
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• देवदुन्दुभयः: divine kettledrums
• देवदुन्दुभयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव-दुन्दुभि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• अपि: also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• नेदुः: resounded/roared
• Type: Verb
• Root: नद्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• महास्वनाः: loud-sounding, of great sound
• महास्वनाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महा-स्वन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Bharata (dynastic epithet in 'bharataśreṣṭha')
• celestial flowers (divyāni puṣpāṇi)
• divine drums (devadundubhi)