Shloka 62

Devanagari script

यन्त्राणि विविधान्येव क्रियास्तेषां च वर्णिता: । अवमर्द: प्रतीघात: केतनानां च भज्जनम्‌,नाना प्रकारके यन्त्रों और उनकी क्रियाओंका भी वर्णन किया गया है। शत्रुके राष्ट्रको कुचल देना, उसकी सेनाओंपर चोट करना और उनके निवास-स्थानोंको नष्ट-भ्रष्ट कर देना --इन सब बातोंका भी इस ग्रन्थमें उल्लेख है

Transliteration

yantrāṇi vividhāny eva kriyās teṣāṃ ca varṇitāḥ | avamardaḥ pratīghātaḥ ketanānāṃ ca bhajjanam ||

Translation

ಭೀಷ್ಮನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಅಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿಧ ವಿಧದ ಯುದ್ಧಯಂತ್ರಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವ ಕ್ರಮಗಳೂ ವರ್ಣಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿವೆ। ಶತ್ರುವಿನ ರಾಜ್ಯವನ್ನು ನುಚ್ಚು ನೂರಾಗಿಸುವುದು, ಅವನ ಸೇನೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಪ್ರಹಾರ ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಶಿಬಿರಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ನೆಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಧ್ವಂಸಗೊಳಿಸುವುದು—ಇವುಗಳನ್ನೂ ಆ ಗ್ರಂಥದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ।

Word by Word

• {'yantrāṇi': 'machines, devices

• here, military engines and contrivances', 'vividhāni': 'various, of many kinds', 'eva': 'indeed, precisely', 'kriyāḥ': 'operations, procedures, modes of action', 'teṣām': 'of those (devices/engines)', 'ca': 'and', 'varṇitāḥ': 'described, set forth', 'avamardaḥ': 'crushing, suppression, trampling down (of an enemy/realm)', 'pratīghātaḥ': 'counter-stroke, striking back

• an attack/repulse', 'ketanānām': 'of camps, banners/standards

• by extension, encampments and military stations', 'bhajjanam': 'breaking, shattering, disrupting'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• yantra (war-engines)
• ketana (camps/standards)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma notes that a treatise on governance and warfare includes detailed knowledge of military technology and tactics—how devices are used, how an enemy’s power is checked, and how camps and positions are disrupted—implying that a ruler’s dharma includes practical preparedness alongside ethical restraint.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on kingship and policy, Bhīṣma is enumerating what is covered in authoritative teachings: descriptions of different war-engines and the tactical actions of crushing, striking, and breaking enemy encampments.