Shloka 16

युधिष्ठिरस्य धनंजय-प्रति गर्हा

Yudhiṣṭhira’s Reproach to Dhanaṃjaya

Devanagari script

सो&वज्ञाय तु निर्विद्धः सूतपुत्रेण मारिष । प्रजज्वाल ततः क्रोधाद्धविषेव हुताशन:

Transliteration

so ’vajñāya tu nirviddhaḥ sūtaputreṇa māriṣa | prajajvāla tataḥ krodhād dhaviṣeva hutāśanaḥ ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「尊き御方よ、御者の子に侮りをもって射貫かれたとき、ユディシュティラ王は、供物のギーを注がれて燃えさかる火のように、怒りに燃え上がった。」

Word by Word

• सः: he (that one)
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अवज्ञाय: by contempt/with disrespect
• अवज्ञाय: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अवज्ञा
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

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

• निर्विद्धः: pierced/wounded
• Type: Verb
• Root: निर्विध्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सूतपुत्रेण: by the charioteer’s son (Karna)
• सूतपुत्रेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूतपुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• मारिष: O noble one!/O sir!
• Type: Noun
• Root: मारिष
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• प्रजज्वाल: blazed up
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + ज्वल्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

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

• क्रोधात्: from anger/out of wrath
• क्रोधात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रोध
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• हविषा: with oblation (ghee, etc.)
• हविषा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हविस्
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

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

• हुताशनः: fire (the eater of offerings)
• हुताशनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: हुताशन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Karṇa (as sūtaputra)
• fire (hutāśana)
• ghee oblation (dhaviṣ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse warns that contempt (avajñā) intensifies the moral and emotional impact of harm: when injury is coupled with insult, even a dharmic person can be driven into consuming anger, likened to fire fed by ghee.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Karṇa Parva battle account, Yudhiṣṭhira is wounded by Karṇa (called sūtaputra) in a manner marked by disdain; the combination of being struck and being slighted makes Yudhiṣṭhira blaze with anger.