Shloka 15

कर्णपर्व — पञ्चदशोऽध्यायः | Karṇa Parva, Chapter 15: Pāṇḍya’s Advance and Aśvatthāmā’s Counterstroke

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत कर्णपर्वनें अश्वत्थामा और भीमसेनका युद्धविषयक पन्द्रहवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ,विस्रस्तबन्धुरयुगान्‌ विस्नस्ताक्षप्रमण्डलान्‌ । रथान्‌ विशकलीकुर्वन्‌ महाभ्राणीव मारुत:

Transliteration

visrastabandhurayugān visrastākṣapramāṇḍalān | rathān viśakalīkurvan mahābhrāṇīva mārutaḥ ||

Translation

ສັນຊະຍະເວົ້າວ່າ: ເຫມືອນລົມແຮງອັນຍິ່ງໃຫຍ່ທີ່ທຸບທຳລາຍຕົ້ນໄມ້ໃຫຍ່, ລາວກຳລັງທຳໃຫ້ລົດຮົບແຕກເປັນຊິ້ນໆ—ລົດທີ່ຄານຍົກແລະສາຍຮັດຫຼຸດລົງ, ແລະແກນກັບວົງລໍ້ແຕກກະຈາຍ.

Word by Word

• विस्रस्त: loosened, fallen off
• विस्रस्त: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विस्रस्त (वि+स्रस्, कृदन्त-भूतकृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• बन्धु-रयुगान्: whose yokes/fastenings (of the pole) were loosened
• बन्धु-रयुगान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: बन्धु-रयुग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• विस्नस्त: dislodged, shattered
• विस्नस्त: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विस्नस्त (वि+स्नस्/स्नस्, कृदन्त-भूतकृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• अक्ष-प्रमण्डलान्: wheel-circles/rims (i.e., wheels/axle-assemblies)
• अक्ष-प्रमण्डलान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अक्ष-प्रमण्डल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• रथान्: chariots
• रथान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: रथ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• विशकलीकुर्वन्: making into pieces, shattering
• विशकलीकुर्वन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: विशकलीकृ (धातु: कृ; causative/denominative formation with शकली)
• Form: Present (participle), Singular, Parasmaipada (active), Masculine, Nominative

• महाभ्राणि-इव: like a great storm-cloud (i.e., as if)
• महाभ्राणि-इव: Karana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: महाभ्राणि (प्रातिपदिक) + इव (अव्यय)
• Form: true

• मारुतः: the wind
• मारुतः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मारुत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• chariots (rathāḥ)
• wind (mārutaḥ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how quickly strength and status collapse when order and restraint fail: in war, once control is lost, destruction spreads indiscriminately, reducing even powerful instruments (chariots) to fragments.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a fighter’s overwhelming assault: chariots with loosened harnesses and dislodged yokes, axles, and wheels are being smashed apart, compared to a storm-wind that breaks great trees.