Shloka 76

भीष्मविक्रमदर्शनं तथा क्रौञ्चारुणव्यूहविधानम् | Bhīṣma’s Ascendancy and the Organization of the Krauñcāruṇa Formation

Devanagari script

राजन संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य संवादमिममद्भुतम्‌ | केशवार्जुनयो: पुण्यं हृष्यामि च मुहुर्मुह:

Transliteration

rājan saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya saṁvādam imam adbhutam | keśavārjunayoḥ puṇyaṁ hṛṣyāmi ca muhur muhuḥ ||

Translation

ಸಂಜಯನು ಹೇಳಿದನು— ಓ ರಾಜನೇ! ಕೇಶವ-ಅರ್ಜುನರ ಈ ಪುಣ್ಯಮಯ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಸಂವಾದವನ್ನು ಮರುಮರು ಸ್ಮರಿಸಿ ನಾನು ಪುನಃ ಪುನಃ ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ।

Word by Word

राजन्O king

संस्मृत्यhaving remembered

संस्मृत्यagain remembering (repeatedly)

संवादम्dialogue

इमम्this

अद्भुतम्wonderful, marvelous

केशव-अर्जुनयोःof Keshava and Arjuna

पुण्यम्holy, meritorious (deed/thing)

हृष्यामिI rejoice

चand

मुहुःagain, repeatedly

मुहुःagain and again

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Keśava (Kṛṣṇa)

Arjuna

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 highlights the transformative value of repeatedly remembering a righteous, sacred teaching dialogue: recollection of the Keśava–Arjuna discourse itself becomes purifying (puṇya) and produces inner joy, suggesting that dharmic insight and devotion can steady the mind even amid the horrors of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, narrating events to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra, pauses to express his own emotional response: as he repeatedly recalls the extraordinary conversation between Kṛṣṇa (Keśava) and Arjuna, he feels renewed delight again and again.