Shloka 28

Devanagari script

भ्रातुरेतद्‌ वच: श्रुत्वा पाण्डव: श्वेतवाहन: । अर्धचन्द्रेण व्यूहेन प्रत्यव्यूहत तां चमूम्‌,भाईकी यह बात सुनकर श्वेतवाहन पाण्डुपुत्र अर्जुनने इस कौरव-सेनाके मुकाबलेमें अपनी सेनाके अर्द्धचन्द्राकार व्यूहकी रचना की

Transliteration

bhrātur etad vacaḥ śrutvā pāṇḍavaḥ śvetavāhanaḥ | ardhacandreṇa vyūhena pratyavyūhata tāṃ camūm ||

Translation

ສັນຈະຍະ ກ່າວວ່າ: ເມື່ອໄດ້ຍິນຖ້ອຍຄໍາຂອງພີ່ນ້ອງຕົນ ອາຣຈຸນ ບຸດແຫ່ງປານດຸ—ຜູ້ມີລົດຮົບຖືກລາກໂດຍມ້າຂາວ—ໄດ້ຈັດກອງທັບຂອງຕົນຕໍ່ຕ້ານກອງນັ້ນ ໂດຍຕັ້ງວິວະເປັນຮູບຄື່ງດວງຈັນ.

Word by Word

भ्रातुःof (his) brother

एतत्this

वचःspeech/words

श्रुत्वाhaving heard

पाण्डवःthe Pandava (Arjuna)

श्वेतवाहनःhe whose chariot has white horses (Arjuna)

अर्धचन्द्रेणwith a half-moon (formation)

व्यूहेनby/with an array (battle-formation)

प्रत्यव्यूहतcounter-arrayed / arranged in opposition

ताम्that

चमूम्army

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Arjuna

Pāṇḍava

brother (unspecified)

Kaurava army (implied by context)

half-moon (ardhacandra) formation

battle-array (vyūha)

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?

Even amid violence, right conduct expresses itself as restraint and order: a warrior-leader answers threat with disciplined, proportionate strategy (vyūha), aiming to protect his side and reduce chaos rather than acting from impulse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Arjuna, after hearing his brother’s words, responds on the battlefield by arranging the Pāṇḍava forces into an ardhacandra (half-moon) formation to counter the opposing host’s deployment.