Shloka 83

Devanagari script

सर्व एते महात्मान: शरार्ता व्रणपीडिता: । संग्रामे न जहुर्भीष्मं युध्यमानं किरीटिना,सौवीर, कितव, प्राच्य, प्रतीच्य, उदीच्य, मालव, अभीषाह, शूरसेन, शिबि, वसाति, शाल्वाश्रय, त्रिगर्त, अम्बष्ठ और केकय--इन सभी देशोंके ये सारे महामनस्वी वीर बाणोंसे घायल और घावोंसे पीड़ित होनेपर भी अर्जुनके साथ युद्ध करनेवाले भीष्मको संग्राम भूमिमें छोड़ न सके

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | sarva ete mahātmānaḥ śarārtā vraṇapīḍitāḥ | saṅgrāme na jahur bhīṣmaṃ yudhyamānaṃ kirīṭinā ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「その大いなる魂をもつ戦士たちは皆、矢に射抜かれ傷に苦しみながらも、戦場でビーシュマを見捨てなかった。彼が冠を戴くアルジュナと戦っている最中であった。」

Word by Word

सर्वेall

एतेthese

महात्मानःgreat-souled (men/warriors)

शर-आर्ताःafflicted by arrows

व्रण-पीडिताःtormented by wounds

संग्रामेin battle

नnot

जहुःthey abandoned/left

भीष्मम्Bhishma

युध्यमानम्fighting

किरीटिनाby the diadem-wearer (Arjuna)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīṣma

Arjuna (Kirīṭin)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights kṣatriya-dharma expressed as steadfastness: even when wounded and suffering, warriors do not desert their commander in the midst of battle. It frames loyalty and endurance as ethical obligations within the martial code.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that many noble fighters, though badly injured by Arjuna’s arrows, continued to stand with Bhīṣma and did not leave him on the battlefield while Bhīṣma fought Arjuna.