Shloka 663

Devanagari script

तावकानां परेषां च परस्परवधैषिणाम्‌ | फिर तो परस्पर वधकी इच्छावाले आपके और शत्रुपक्षके सैनिकोंमें प्राणोंका मोह छोड़कर भयंकर युद्ध होने लगा

Transliteration

tāvakānāṁ pareṣāṁ ca parasparavadheṣiṇām |

Translation

サञ्जयは言った。汝の軍と敵軍のあいだでは、互いの滅びを求める者ばかりとなり、生への執着は消え失せ、恐るべき相互殺戮の戦が始まった。

Word by Word

• तावकानाम्: of your (people/soldiers)
• तावकानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तावक
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• परेषाम्: of the others/enemies
• परेषाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पर
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• परस्पर-वधैषिणाम्: of those desiring mutual slaughter
• परस्पर-वधैषिणाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परस्परवधैषिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Kaurava army (tāvakāḥ)
• Pandava army (pare)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how, once combatants become fixed on mutual destruction, fear of death and attachment to life can be eclipsed by rage, duty, or fatal resolve—raising an ethical warning about the dehumanizing momentum of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that both armies—Kauravas and their opponents—are locked in a fierce engagement, each seeking the other’s death, and the battle turns terrifyingly intense.