Shloka 26

Devanagari script

भारद्वाजमुखा: सर्वे भीमसेनजिघांसया । नानाविधानि शस्त्राणि भीमस्योरस्पपातयन्‌,ट्रोणाचार्य आदि सभी योद्धा भीमसेनके वधकी इच्छासे उनकी छातीपर नाना प्रकारके अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंका प्रहार करने लगे

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | bhāradvājamukhāḥ sarve bhīmasenajighāṃsayā | nānāvidhāni śastrāṇi bhīmasyorasi apātayan |

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。ドローナを先頭に、ビーマセーナを討たんとする戦士たちは、さまざまな武器を雨のごとくビーマの胸に浴びせかけた。

Word by Word

भारद्वाजमुखाःhaving Bharadvaja (Drona) as their leader / headed by Bharadvaja's son

सर्वेall

भीमसेनजिघांसयाwith the desire to kill Bhimasena

नानाविधानिof various kinds

शस्त्राणिweapons

भीमस्यof Bhima

उरःchest

अपातयन्they caused to fall / hurled (down) / struck

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Droṇa (Bhāradvāja’s son)

Bhīmasena (Bhīma)

weapons (śastra)

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 how, in war, intention (jighāṃsā—desire to kill) drives action: even skilled warriors can become instruments of collective lethal purpose. Ethically, it points to the tension between kṣatriya duty in battle and the hardening of the heart that comes with single-minded violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Droṇa and the other warriors, aiming to slay Bhīma, launch a concentrated barrage of diverse weapons at his chest—an attempt to neutralize a pivotal Pandava fighter through coordinated assault.