Shloka 18

Devanagari script

सवालव्यजर्नर्दिव्यर्दिविस्थैरप्सरोगणै: । शक्रसूर्यकराब्जा भ्यां प्रमार्जितमुखावुभौ

Transliteration

sa vālavya-janair divyair divi-sthair apsaro-gaṇaiḥ | śakra-sūrya-karābjābhyāṃ pramārjita-mukhāv ubhau ||

Translation

サञ्जयは言った。すると二人は—天上の従者たちと、天界に住まうアプサラスの群れに敬われ—その顔をやさしくぬぐわれ、清々しくよみがえった。まるでインドラと太陽神が、蓮華のごとき御手で拭い清めたかのようであった。

Word by Word

• सवालव्यजनैः: with white fans
• सवालव्यजनैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सवालव्यजन
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• दिव्यैः: divine
• दिव्यैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिव्य
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• दिविस्थैः: dwelling in heaven
• दिविस्थैः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिविस्थ
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• अप्सरोगणैः: by groups of Apsarases
• अप्सरोगणैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप्सरोगण
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• शक्रसूर्यकराब्जाभ्याम्: with the lotus-hands of Indra and the Sun
• शक्रसूर्यकराब्जाभ्याम्: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शक्रसूर्यकराब्ज
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Dual

• प्रमार्जितमुखौ: whose faces were wiped/cleansed
• प्रमार्जितमुखौ: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रमार्जितमुख
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• उभौ: both
• उभौ: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उभ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Apsarases
• Śakra (Indra)
• Sūrya (Sun-god)
• Heaven (divi)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse conveys that the deaths and sufferings of great warriors are not treated as mere brutality; the epic frames them within a moral-cosmic horizon where valor and the gravity of action are acknowledged by divine witnesses, reminding the listener that karma and honor operate even amid chaos.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a scene in which two figures (ubhau) are attended by celestial beings—Apsarases and heavenly attendants—who symbolically cleanse and refresh their faces, poetically likened to being wiped by the lotus-like hands of Indra and the Sun.