Shloka 36

Devanagari script

कथं च निहत: पाप: पाउ्चाल्य: पशुवन्मया । शस्त्रेण विजिताललोकान्‌ नाप्नुयादिति मे मति:

Transliteration

kathaṁ ca nihataḥ pāpaḥ pāñcālyaḥ paśuvanmayā | śastreṇa vijitāllokān nāpnuyād iti me matiḥ ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「私が獣のように討ち取った、あの罪深きパンチャーラの子が、武器によって得られる功徳の世界に到達できようか。これが私の確固たる断定である。」

Word by Word

• कथम्: how
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्
• Form: Avyaya

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya

• निहतः: slain
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नि-हन्
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular (past passive participle)

• पापः: sinful, wicked
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पाप
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• पाञ्चाल्यः: the Panchala prince (Dhrishtadyumna)
• पाञ्चाल्यः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाञ्चाल्य
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• पशुवत्: like an animal
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पशुवत्
• Form: Avyaya

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, instrumental, singular

• शस्त्रेण: with a weapon
• शस्त्रेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शस्त्र
• Form: Neuter, instrumental, singular

• विजित-लोकान्: the worlds won (by valor/arms)
• विजित-लोकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: विजितलोक
• Form: Masculine, accusative, plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न
• Form: Avyaya

• आप्नुयात्: should attain
• Type: Verb
• Root: आप्
• Form: Optative (vidhi-lin), parasmaipada, 3rd person, singular

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति
• Form: Avyaya

• मे: my
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Genitive, singular

• मतिः: opinion, resolve
• मतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मति
• Form: Feminine, nominative, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pāñcālya (the Pāñcāla prince—Dhraṣṭadyumna in context)
• śastra (weapons)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical idea that the manner of killing matters: merit-bearing “worlds” are associated with righteous combat, whereas a beast-like killing is viewed as sinful and not a source of heavenly reward.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a speaker’s grim resolve: having killed the Pāñcāla prince in a degrading, non-heroic way, he believes the victim should not gain the heavenly realms typically won by warriors through honorable use of weapons.