Shloka 30

इन्द्रजिद्-लक्ष्मणयुद्धम्

Indrajit and Lakṣmaṇa: Escalation through Concealment

Devanagari script

प्रच्छाद्य पृथिवीं तस्थु: सर्वमायोधन प्रति । शरीराण्यशिरस्कानि विदेहानि शिरांसि च

Transliteration

pracchādya pṛthivīṃ tasthuḥ sarvam āyodhanaṃ prati | śarīrāṇy aśiraskāni videhāni śirāṃsi ca

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: Covering the earth, they stood facing the entire battlefield. There were bodies without heads, and severed heads lying apart from their bodies—an appalling scene that underscores the ruinous cost of violence and the moral gravity of slaughter.

Word by Word

प्रच्छाद्यhaving covered

पृथिवीम्the earth

तस्थुःstood / remained

सर्वम्all, the whole

आयोधनम्battlefield

प्रतिtowards, in the direction of

शरीराणिbodies

अशिरस्कानिheadless

विदेहानिbodiless / without bodies

शिरांसिheads

चand

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

pṛthivī (earth/ground)

āyodhana (battlefield)

Sandhi Notes