Shloka 66

Devanagari script

हिडिम्बबककिर्मीरा निहता मम बान्धवा: । “महाराज! आपको तो मालूम ही होगा कि भीमसेनने हमारे राक्षस भाई-बन्धु हिडिम्ब, बक और किर्मीरका किस प्रकार वध कर डाला है

Transliteration

hiḍimbabakkirmīrā nihatā mama bāndhavāḥ |

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「ヒディンバ、バカ、そしてキルミーラ――我が身内の者たちが討たれました。大王よ、ビーマセーナが我らの羅刹の兄弟・縁者をいかにして殺したか、あなたはきっとご存じでしょう。」

Word by Word

हिडिम्बHidimba

बकBaka

किर्मीराKirmira

निहताःslain/killed

ममof me / my

बान्धवाःkinsmen/relatives

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahārāja (Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

Bhīmasena

Hiḍimba

Baka

Kirmīra

Rākṣasas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how past deeds and enmities continue to shape present conflict: recalling earlier killings becomes a moral and emotional lens through which the war is interpreted, stressing the long consequences of violence and the pull of kinship-based grievance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reminds King Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Bhīmasena had previously slain the rākṣasas Hiḍimba, Baka, and Kirmīra—whom the speaker calls ‘my relatives’—invoking those events as background to the present hostilities in the war.