Shloka 27

Devanagari script

तां तु सेनां तदा भीमो दर्शयन्‌ पाणिलाघवम्‌ | शरैरवचकर्तोंग्रै: प्रेषयिष्यन्‌ यमक्षयम्‌

Transliteration

tāṁ tu senāṁ tadā bhīmo darśayan pāṇilāghavam | śarair avacchakar torṇagraiḥ preṣayiṣyan yamakṣayam ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「そのときビーマは手さばきの迅速さを示し、剃刀のごとく鋭い恐るべき矢で汝の軍を切り裂き、ヤマの国へ送り込まんとした。」

Word by Word

• ताम्: that (her/that)
• ताम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

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

• सेनाम्: army
• सेनाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सेना
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• तदा: then/at that time
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• भीमः: Bhima
• भीमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दर्शयन्: showing
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• पाणि-लाघवम्: hand-skill/quickness of hand
• पाणि-लाघवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: लाघव
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• शरैः: with arrows
• शरैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शर
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• अवचकर्तृ-अङ्ग्रैः: with sharp/terrible (lit. limb-cutting) [arrows]
• अवचकर्तृ-अङ्ग्रैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अवचकर्तृ-अङ्ग्रि
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• प्रेषयिष्यन्: intending to send/being about to send
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-इष्
• Form: शतृ (future active participle; periphrastic sense), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• यम-क्षयम्: the abode/realm of Yama (death)
• यम-क्षयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhīma (Bhīmasena)
• Yama
• Kaurava army (your army)
• arrows

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the harsh reality of kṣatriya-dharma in war: skill and determination, when yoked to battle, become forces that bring death. It implicitly warns that martial glory is inseparable from grave moral weight and the inevitability of mortality.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes Bhīma’s battlefield onslaught: he demonstrates extraordinary speed and strength, cutting through the Kaurava forces with fierce, sharp arrows, as if dispatching them to Yama’s abode.