Shloka 34

Devanagari script

तथैव तावकं सैन्यं भीमार्जुनपरिक्षतम्‌ । मुहाते तत्र तत्रेव समदेव वराड़ना,इसी प्रकार भीम और अर्जुनके बाणोंसे क्षत-विक्षत हुई आपकी सेना मतवाली स्त्रीकी भाँति जहाँ-तहाँ मूर्च्छित होने लगी

Transliteration

tathaiva tāvakaṃ sainyaṃ bhīmārjunaparikṣatam | muhūte tatra tatraiva samadeva varāṅganā ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「同じく、ビーマとアルジュナの矢に裂かれ傷ついたそなたの軍勢は、ほどなくしてあちらこちらで気を失い倒れ始めた。まるで酔いに呑まれた女のように。」

Word by Word

तथाthus, in the same way

एवindeed, just

तावकम्your (belonging to you)

सैन्यम्army

भीम-अर्जुन-परिक्षतम्wounded by Bhima and Arjuna

मुह्यतेbecomes bewildered / swoons

तत्रthere

तत्रhere and there (repeated: in various places)

इवlike, as if

समदेवas if intoxicated / in a drunken manner (reading uncertain)

वराङ्गनाa woman (fair-limbed woman)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīma

Arjuna

Kaurava army (tāvakaṃ sainyam)

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 underscores the immediate moral and practical consequence of adharma-driven conflict: when leadership persists in a wrongful course, the collective (the army) bears the suffering. It also highlights how fear and shock can break even a large force when confronted by disciplined valor.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the Kaurava troops, struck and badly wounded by Bhīma and Arjuna, begin to lose cohesion—fainting and collapsing in different places—showing the Pāṇḍava warriors’ overwhelming impact on the battlefield.