Shloka 17

Devanagari script

जामदग्न्येन रामेण सहस्ननयनोपम: । संयुगे निहतो रोषात्‌ कार्तवीर्यो महाबल:,महाबली राजा कार्तवीर्य अर्जुन इन्द्रके समान पराक्रमी था; परंतु रोषके ही कारण जमदग्निनन्दन परशुरामके द्वारा युद्धमें मारा गया

Transliteration

Jāmadagnyena Rāmeṇa sahasranayanopamaḥ | saṃyuge nihato roṣāt Kārtavīryo mahābalaḥ ||

Translation

ಸಹಸ್ರನೇತ್ರ ಇಂದ್ರನಂತೆ ಪರಾಕ್ರಮಶಾಲಿಯಾದ ಮಹಾಬಲ ಕಾರ್ತವೀರ್ಯನು, ಕೋಪವೇ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿ, ಯುದ್ಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಮದಗ್ನ್ಯ ರಾಮ (ಪರಶುರಾಮ)ನಿಂದ ಹತನಾದನು.

Word by Word

जामदग्न्येनby Jamadagni's descendant (Parashurama)

रामेणby Rama (Parashurama)

सहस्रनयनोपमःcomparable to the thousand-eyed (Indra)

संयुगेin battle

निहतःslain

रोषात्from/owing to anger

कार्तवीर्यःKartavirya (Arjuna)

महाबलःvery strong, mighty

Speaker

नाग उवाच

Characters & Entities

Jāmadagnya Rāma (Paraśurāma)

Kārtavīrya Arjuna

Indra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights wrath (roṣa) as a morally and practically ruinous force: even a king as mighty as Kārtavīrya, comparable to Indra, meets destruction when anger becomes the driving cause. Power without self-restraint collapses into violence and downfall.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nāga recalls the famous episode in which Paraśurāma (Rāma Jāmadagnya) kills the powerful Haihaya king Kārtavīrya Arjuna in battle. The emphasis here is not merely on the event, but on its stated cause—wrath—framing the killing as a consequence of uncontrolled anger.