Shloka 23

Devanagari script

मन्ये वज़ञधरस्यैष निनादो भैरवस्वन:

Transliteration

manye vajradharasya eṣa ninādo bhairavasvanaḥ

Translation

ユディシュティラは言った。「これは金剛持（インドラ）の、雷鳴のごとき恐るべき咆哮に違いない。」戦の混乱のただ中で、彼はその戦慄すべき響きを神々の徴と受け取り、圧倒的な戦場の出来事の中に意味と道義の秩序を読み取ろうとした。

Word by Word

• मन्ये: I think / I consider
• मन्ये: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: मन् (मन्यते)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), उत्तम, एकवचन, आत्मनेपद

• वज्रधरस्य: of the thunderbolt-bearer (Indra)
• वज्रधरस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: वज्रधर
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• एषः: this
• एषः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• निनादः: roar / loud sound
• निनादः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: निनाद
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• भैरवस्वनः: having a terrible sound
• भैरवस्वनः: Visheshana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भैरवस्वन
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Vajradhara (Indra)
• vajra (thunderbolt)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even amid violence and uncertainty, a dharmic leader seeks interpretation rather than panic—reading events through a moral and cosmic lens, and looking for signs that restore courage and order.

What is happening in the narrative?

On the battlefield in Droṇa Parva, a terrifying roar is heard. Yudhiṣṭhira identifies it as the awe-inspiring sound of Indra (Vajradhara), treating it as a significant, possibly auspicious or portentous, occurrence.