Shloka 8

उद्योगपर्व — अध्याय १२५: दुर्योधनस्य प्रत्युत्तरम्

Duryodhana’s Reply in the Kuru Assembly

Devanagari script

विराटश्न शिखण्डी च शैशुपालिश्न दंशिता: । यावन्न प्रविशन्त्येते नक्रा इव महार्णवम्‌

Transliteration

virāṭaś ca śikhaṇḍī ca śaiśupāliś ca daṃśitāḥ | yāvan na praviśanty ete nakrā iva mahārṇavam ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「ヴィラータとシカンディー、そしてシーシュパーラの血筋の者も――武具を整え備え万端であっても――時が至るまでは戦場へ踏み入れぬ。あたかも、定めの刻までは大海へ身を投じない鰐のごとく。」

Word by Word

• विराटः: Virāṭa
• विराटः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: विराट
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• शिखण्डी: Śikhaṇḍin (Śikhaṇḍī)
• शिखण्डी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिखण्डिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• शैशुपालिः: Śaiśupāli (a warrior/one of Śiśupāla’s side)
• शैशुपालिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शैशुपालि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दंशिताः: armed, equipped (lit. furnished with weapons/armor)
• दंशिताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दंशित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• यावत्: until, as long as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत्

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• प्रविशन्ति: enter
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-विश्
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• एते: these (men)
• एते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• नक्राः: crocodiles
• नक्राः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नक्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• महार्णवम्: the great ocean
• महार्णवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महार्णव
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Virāṭa
• Śikhaṇḍī
• Śaiśupāli
• mahārṇava (great ocean)
• nakra (crocodile)