Shloka 33

Devanagari script

शरवेश्मप्रविष्टी तौ ददृशाते न कैश्वन । सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ राजज्छाद्यमानौ घनैरिव,राजन! जैसे मेघोंद्वारा ढक जानेपर सूर्य और चन्द्रमा दिखायी नहीं देते, उसी प्रकार बाणनिर्मित भवनमें प्रविष्ट हुए उन दोनों वीरोंपर किसीकी दृष्टि नहीं पड़ती थी

Transliteration

śaraveśma-praviṣṭī tau dadṛśāte na kaiścana | sūryācandramasau rājan chādyamānau ghanair iva ||

Translation

ಸಂಜಯನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ರಾಜನೇ! ಬಾಣಗಳಿಂದ ನಿರ್ಮಿತವಾದ ಗೃಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಿದ ಆ ಇಬ್ಬರು ವೀರರು ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಕಾಣಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಮೋಡಗಳಿಂದ ಮುಚ್ಚಿದಾಗ ಸೂರ್ಯಚಂದ್ರರು ಕಾಣದಂತೆ.

Word by Word

शरby arrows

वेश्मin the house/building

प्रविष्टौhaving entered

तौthose two

ददृशातेwere seen/appeared

नnot

केनby anyone

स्वनin (one's) own (place/field) / within oneself

सूर्यthe sun

चन्द्रमसौand the moon (the two: sun and moon)

राजन्O king

छाद्यमानौbeing covered

घनैःby clouds

इवlike/as

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (rājan)

the two heroes (tau)

sun (sūrya)

moon (candramas)

clouds (ghana)

arrow-built enclosure (śaraveśma)

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 how, in the chaos of war, even great figures can become obscured; appearances and certainty are veiled, so judgment based only on sight is unreliable.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to the king that two warriors have moved into a dense screen or enclosure formed by arrows, making them invisible to onlookers—like the sun and moon hidden by clouds.