Shloka 25

Chapter 30: Formation Disruption, Competing War-Cries, and Nīla’s Fall

Droṇa-parva

Devanagari script

हते तस्मिज्जलौघास्तु प्रादुरासन्‌ भयानका: । अम्भसस्तस्य नाशार्थमादित्यास्त्रमथार्जुन:

Transliteration

hate tasmiñ jalaughās tu prādurāsan bhayānakāḥ | ambhasas tasya nāśārtham ādityāstram athārjunaḥ ||

Translation

サンジャヤは語った。彼が討たれるや、恐るべき水の奔流が突如として湧き起こった。そこでアルジュナは、その水塊を滅するため、アーディティヤの武器（Āditya-astra）を用いた。この一件は、戦の混乱においてこそ対処は識別の智慧に導かれるべきであり、力は過剰のためではなく、迫る害を鎮めるために用いられるべきことを示している。

Word by Word

• हते: when (he/it) was slain
• हते: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हन् (धातु) → हत (कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative, Singular

• तस्मिन्: in/when that (was the case)
• तस्मिन्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative, Singular

• जलौघाः: floods/streams of water
• जलौघाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जलौघ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• प्रादुरासन्: appeared/arose
• Type: Verb
• Root: आस् (धातु) with प्रादुर् (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Plural

• भयानकाः: terrifying
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भयानक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• अम्भसः: of the water
• Type: Noun
• Root: अम्भस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• तस्य: of that/its
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• नाशार्थम्: for the destruction
• नाशार्थम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: नाश + अर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आदित्यास्त्रम्: the Āditya weapon (Sun-weapon)
• आदित्यास्त्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आदित्य + अस्त्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• अथ: then/thereupon
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ

• अर्जुनः: Arjuna
• अर्जुनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्जुन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Arjuna
• Ādityāstra (solar weapon)
• jalaugha (torrents/floods of water)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even amid violent conflict, power should be applied proportionately and purposefully: Arjuna uses a specific counter-weapon to remove an immediate threat (the terrifying flood), illustrating disciplined action rather than uncontrolled destruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

After a combatant is slain, dreadful torrents of water manifest on the battlefield. To neutralize this watery onslaught, Arjuna deploys the Āditya-astra, a solar divine weapon, to destroy or dry up the threatening mass of water.