Shloka 14

Devanagari script

ततः क्रुद्धो महाराज तव पुत्रो महारथ: । पाण्डुपुत्रौ महेष्वासौ वारयामास पत्रिभि:,महाराज! तब आपके महारथी पुत्रने कुपित होकर उन दोनों महाधनुर्धर पाण्डुपुत्रोंको बाणोंद्वारा आगे बढ़नेसे रोक दिया

Transliteration

tataḥ kruddho mahārāja tava putro mahārathaḥ | pāṇḍuputrau maheṣvāsau vārayāmāsa patribhiḥ ||

Translation

ಆಗ, ಮಹಾರಾಜನೇ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪುತ್ರನಾದ ಮಹಾರಥನು ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡು ಆ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಮಹಾಧನುರ್ಧರ ಪಾಂಡುಪುತ್ರರ ಮುಂದಾಟವನ್ನು ಬಾಣಗಳಿಂದ ತಡೆದನು.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

क्रुद्धःangry

महाराजO great king

तवyour

पुत्रःson

महारथःgreat chariot-warrior

पाण्डुपुत्रौthe two sons of Pāṇḍu

महेष्वासौthe two great bowmen

वारयामासchecked, restrained, stopped

पत्रिभिःwith arrows

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Duryodhana

Pāṇḍu

Pāṇḍava brothers (two)

arrows

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 anger (krodha) quickly becomes an instrument of obstruction and violence in war, tightening the chain of retaliation; it implicitly warns that loss of inner restraint fuels further destruction even when framed as martial duty.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Duryodhana, enraged, uses a volley of arrows to halt the forward movement of two Pāṇḍava brothers, intensifying the immediate clash on the battlefield.