Shloka 226

Devanagari script

मृद्नतः सर्वसैन्यानि युगान्तमिव कुर्वत: । आज मैं सारी सेनाओंको रौंदता हुआ प्रलय-कालका दृश्य उपस्थित करूँगा। अतः आज श्रीकृष्णसहित समस्त पाण्डव मेरा पराक्रम देखें

Transliteration

mṛdnataḥ sarvasainyāni yugāntam iva kurvataḥ | adya mayā sarvāḥ senāḥ pramṛdyā pralaya-kālasya dṛśyam upasthāpayiṣyāmi | ataḥ adya śrīkṛṣṇa-sahitaḥ samasta-pāṇḍavā mama parākramaṃ paśyantu ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「彼があらゆる軍勢を踏み砕き、まるで劫末のごとき様相を現すとき、今日、彼は群兵を蹂躙して滅尽の光景そのものを呼び起こすであろう。ゆえに今日、シュリー・クリシュナとともに、パーンダヴァのすべてが彼の威力を目撃せよ。」

Word by Word

• मृद्नतः: of (him) trampling/crushing
• मृद्नतः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: मृद् (धातु)
• Form: शतृ-प्रत्यय (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुं, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• सर्व: all
• सर्व: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: नपुं, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• सैन्यानि: armies/troops
• सैन्यानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सैन्य
• Form: नपुं, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• युगान्तम्: the end of an age (world-ending time)
• युगान्तम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: युगान्त
• Form: पुं, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• इव: like/as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• कुर्वतः: of (him) doing/making
• कुर्वतः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (धातु)
• Form: शतृ-प्रत्यय (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुं, षष्ठी, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• श्रीकृष्ण (Śrī Kṛṣṇa)
• पाण्डव (Pāṇḍavas)
• सेना/सैन्य (armies)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the moral psychology of war: a warrior’s pride and resolve can escalate violence into ‘cosmic’ proportions, using yugānta/pralaya imagery to magnify human destruction. Ethically, it warns how ego-driven prowess seeks spectatorship and validation, even when the act is mass slaughter.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a combatant’s fierce intention: he will crush the opposing forces so thoroughly that it will resemble the end of the world, and he challenges the Pāṇḍavas—along with Kṛṣṇa—to watch his prowess on that day.