Shloka 193

कुम्भकर्णवधः — Kumbhakarṇa’s Fall and the Renewal of the Engagement

Devanagari script

सेनां तवेमां हतसर्वयोधां विक्षोभितां द्रक्ष्यसि पाण्डुपुत्रै: । (अरे मूढ!) रत्नोंसे लदी हुई नाव जैसे समुद्रके बीचमें जाकर किसी मगरमच्छकी पीठसे टकराकर टूट जाती है, उसी प्रकार पाण्डवलोग आज तेरे समस्त सैनिकोंका संहार करके तेरी इस सारी सेनाको छिलन्न-भिन्न कर डालेंगे और तू अपनी आँखोंसे यह सब कुछ देखेगा

Transliteration

senāṁ tavemāṁ hata-sarva-yodhāṁ vikṣobhitāṁ drakṣyasi pāṇḍuputraiḥ |

Translation

ಪಾಂಡುಪುತ್ರರಿಂದ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಕಲಕಲ್ಪಟ್ಟು, ಎಲ್ಲ ಯೋಧರೂ ಹತರಾದ ನಿನ್ನ ಈ ಸೇನೆಯನ್ನು ನೀನೇ ಕಾಣುವೆ. ರತ್ನಗಳಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದ ದೋಣಿ ಸಮುದ್ರಮಧ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಮೊಸಳೆಯ ಬೆನ್ನಿಗೆ ಡಿಕ್ಕಿ ಹೊಡೆದು ಚೂರುಚೂರಾಗುವಂತೆ, ಪಾಂಡವರು ಇಂದು ನಿನ್ನ ಎಲ್ಲ ಸೈನಿಕರನ್ನು ಸಂಹರಿಸಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಸೇನೆಯನ್ನು ಛಿನ್ನಭಿನ್ನಗೊಳಿಸುವರು; ಅದನ್ನು ನೀನು ನಿನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣಾರೆ ನೋಡುವೆ.

Word by Word

सेनाम्army

तवof you/your

इमाम्this

हत-सर्व-योधाम्whose all warriors are slain

विक्षोभिताम्shaken, thrown into turmoil

द्रक्ष्यसिyou will see

पाण्डु-पुत्रैःby the sons of Pāṇḍu (the Pāṇḍavas)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Pāṇḍavas

sons of Pāṇḍu

your army (senā)

boat (nāva, implied by simile in the prose gloss)

sea/ocean (samudra, implied by simile in the prose gloss)

crocodile (makara/grāha, implied by simile in the prose gloss)

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 underscores the moral logic of consequence: an army founded on wrongful intent and sustained by adharma is destined for collapse. It frames destruction not merely as military defeat but as the inevitable outcome of ethical disorder, which the wrongdoer must finally confront directly.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana delivers a forewarning to an addressed opponent: the Pāṇḍavas will kill the warriors and throw the entire host into chaos, and the addressee will personally witness the ruin—likened (in the accompanying simile) to a richly laden boat shattering mid-ocean upon striking a crocodile.