Shloka 26

Devanagari script

व | हे हि |: ; धप ७ ् * | सूर्यारुणौ यथा दृष्टवा तमो नश्यति मारिष । तथा नश्यन्तु कौन्तेया: सपठ्चाला: ससूंजया:

Transliteration

sūryāruṇau yathā dṛṣṭvā tamo naśyati māriṣa | tathā naśyantu kaunteyāḥ sapāñcālāḥ sasūñjayāḥ ||

Translation

សញ្ជ័យបាននិយាយថា៖ «ឱ មហាបុរស! ដូចអន្ធការលង់បាត់ពេលឃើញព្រះអាទិត្យ និងអរុណរះឡើង ដូច្នោះដែរ សូមឲ្យកូនៗរបស់គុនទី—ជាមួយបញ្ចាល និងស៊ូញជយ—ត្រូវវិនាស»។

Word by Word

हेO! (vocative particle)

हिindeed, for

सूर्यthe sun (as one of the two)

अरुणौreddish, dawn-colored (two)

यथाjust as

दृष्ट्वाhaving seen

तमःdarkness

नश्यतिperishes, disappears

मारिषO noble one / O sir

तथाso, in the same way

नश्यन्तुlet (them) perish, may (they) be destroyed

कौन्तेयाःthe sons of Kunti (Pandavas)

सtogether with

पाञ्चालाःthe Panchalas

सtogether with

सृञ्जयाःthe Srinjayas

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Sūrya

Aruṇa (dawn)

Kaunteyāḥ (Pāṇḍavas)

Pāñcālāḥ (Pāñcālas)

Sūñjaya

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses a sunrise metaphor to portray the enemy’s destruction as natural and inevitable—highlighting how, in war, moral language and imagery are employed to justify violence by equating one side with ‘darkness’ that must disappear.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, reporting the battlefield situation to the king, voices (or conveys) a wish that the Pāṇḍavas and their allies—the Pāñcālas and Sūñjaya—should be destroyed, comparing their end to darkness vanishing at the sight of the Sun and dawn.