Shloka 34

Bhagadatta’s Advance, the Saṃśaptaka Challenge, and Arjuna’s Counterstrike (द्रोणपर्व, अध्याय २६)

Devanagari script

तदद्भुतमपश्याम भगदत्तस्य संयुगे

Transliteration

tad adbhutam apaśyāma bhagadattasya saṁyuge

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「その戦いにおいて、我らはバガダッタの成し遂げたまことに驚異の業を目の当たりにした。戦の混乱のただ中で示された比類なき武勇は、老練の戦士たちさえ畏嘆させたのである。」

Word by Word

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• अद्भुतम्: wonderful, astonishing
• अद्भुतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अद्भुत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• अपश्याम: we saw
• अपश्याम: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पश् (दृश्-अर्थे)
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), First, Plural

• भगदत्तस्य: of Bhagadatta
• भगदत्तस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun (Proper name)
• Root: भगदत्त
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• संयुगे: in battle
• संयुगे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: संयुग
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhagadatta

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The line highlights how, even within a destructive war, extraordinary human capability can evoke wonder; it implicitly points to the Mahābhārata’s recurring tension between admiration for valor (kṣātra-tejas) and the sobering ethical cost of violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, reporting the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, remarks that he and others witnessed something astonishing in the combat involving Bhagadatta, signaling a notable feat or turn of action centered on that warrior.