Shloka 32

Devanagari script

स महास्त्रैर्महाराज द्रोणमाच्छादयदू रणे । निहत्य सर्वाण्यस्त्राणि भारद्वाजस्य पार्षत:,महाराज! धृष्टद्युम्नने रणभूमिमें द्रोणाचार्यके सभी अस्त्रोंको नष्ट करके उन्हें अपने महान्‌ अस्त्रोंद्वारा आच्छादित कर दिया

Transliteration

sa mahāstrair mahārāja droṇam ācchādayad raṇe | nihatya sarvāṇy astrāṇi bhāradvājasya pārṣataḥ ||

Translation

ಮಹಾರಾಜನೇ! ರಣಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪೃಷತಪುತ್ರ ಧೃಷ್ಟದ್ಯುಮ್ನನು ಭಾರದ್ವಾಜಪುತ್ರ ದ್ರೋಣನ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಅಸ್ತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ನಾಶಮಾಡಿ, ನಂತರ ತನ್ನ ಮಹಾದಿವ್ಯಾಸ್ತ್ರಗಳಿಂದ ದ್ರೋಣನನ್ನು ಆವರಿಸಿದನು.

Word by Word

सःhe (that one)

महास्त्रैःwith great weapons/missiles

महाराजO great king

द्रोणम्Drona

आच्छादयत्covered, enveloped

रणेin battle

निहत्यhaving slain/destroyed

सर्वाणिall

अस्त्राणिweapons/missiles

भारद्वाजस्यof Bharadvaja (i.e., Drona)

पार्षतःthe son of Prishata (Dhrishtadyumna)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Droṇa

Dhṛṣṭadyumna (Pārṣata)

Bhāradvāja

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?

Even in a righteous-war framework, duty and strategic necessity can compel a warrior to confront revered figures; the episode highlights the harsh moral tension between personal reverence (for a teacher) and the kṣatriya obligation to pursue one’s pledged objective in battle.

What is happening in the narrative?

Dhṛṣṭadyumna counters and nullifies Droṇa’s deployed weapons and then blankets Droṇa with a superior barrage of powerful astras, as Sañjaya reports the escalating duel to Dhṛtarāṣṭra.