Shloka 10

द्रोणस्य सुपर्णव्यूहः — युधिष्ठिरप्रत्यव्यूहः

Droṇa’s Suparṇa Formation and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Counter-array

Devanagari script

बद्ध्वा च भ्रुकुटिं वक्रे क्रोधस्य प्रतिलक्षणम्‌ । देवदत्तं महाशड्खं पूरयामास पाण्डव:

Transliteration

baddhvā ca bhru-kuṭiṁ vakre krodhasya pratilakṣaṇam | devadattaṁ mahāśaṅkhaṁ pūrayāmāsa pāṇḍavaḥ ||

Translation

ಭ್ರೂಕುಟಿಯನ್ನು ವಕ್ರವಾಗಿ ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡು ಕ್ರೋಧದ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ ಲಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸುತ್ತ ಪಾಂಡವನು ಮಹಾಶಂಖ ದೇವದತ್ತವನ್ನು ಘೋರನಾದದಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿಸಿದನು।

Word by Word

बद्ध्वाhaving bound/contracted

चand

भ्रुकुटिम्the frown (knitting of the brows)

वक्रेon/at the face (lit. in the crooked/curved [brow/face])

क्रोधस्यof anger

प्रतिलक्षणम्a sign/mark (indicative feature)

देवदत्तम्Devadatta (name of the conch)

महाशङ्खम्the great conch

पूरयामासfilled; blew (the conch)

पाण्डवःthe Pandava (Arjuna)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Pāṇḍava (Arjuna)

Devadatta (conch)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how powerful emotions like anger appear through bodily signs, yet in a dharma-framed battle they are directed into purposeful, disciplined action rather than uncontrolled violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes Arjuna (the Pāṇḍava) knitting his brows in anger and then blowing his great conch Devadatta—an audible signal of readiness and fierce resolve in the midst of the Drona Parva battle.