Shloka 41

Aśvatthāman’s Arrow-Screen and the Confrontation with Yudhiṣṭhira (द्रौणि–युधिष्ठिर-संग्रामः)

Devanagari script

एवमादि मयान्यैर्वा शक्‍्यं वक्तुं भवेद्‌ बहु

Transliteration

evamādi mayānyair vā śakyaṃ vaktuṃ bhaved bahu

Translation

「このようにして、なお多くを語ることができよう——我が語るもよし、他の者が語るもよい。」

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• आदि: and so on; etc.
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: आदि

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: common, instrumental, singular

• अन्यैः: by others
• अन्यैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्य
• Form: masculine, instrumental, plural

• वा: or
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वा

• शक्यम्: possible; able to be done/said
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शक्य
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• वक्तुम्: to say; to speak
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: infinitive (tumun)

• भवेत्: might be; could be
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: optative (vidhilin), 3rd, singular

• बहु: much; a lot
• बहु: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहु
• Form: neuter, nominative/accusative, singular

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Karna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The line signals rhetorical restraint: even when one can elaborate at length, one may choose to conclude, implying that the essential point has been stated and further speech is unnecessary.

What is happening in the narrative?

Karna, as the speaker, closes or rounds off a statement by noting that many more arguments or details could be expressed—by himself or others—indicating a deliberate end to the present discourse.