Shloka 44

अर्जुनकर्णसंनिपातवर्णनम् / The Convergence of Arjuna and Karṇa

Devanagari script

यो नः पुरा षण्ढतिलानवोचत्‌ सभामध्ये कौरवाणां समक्षम्‌ । स दुर्मति: कच्चिदुपेत्य संख्ये त्वया हतः सूतपुत्रो हामर्षी,जिसने पूर्वकालमें सभाभवनके भीतर कौरवोंकी आँखोंके सामने हमें थोथे तिलोंके समान नपुंसक बताया था वह अमर्षशील दुर्बुद्धि सूतपुत्र क्या आज युद्धमें आकर तुम्हारे हाथसे मारा गया?

Transliteration

yo naḥ purā ṣaṇḍhatilān avocat sabhāmadhye kauravāṇāṁ samakṣam | sa durmatiḥ kaccid upetya saṅkhye tvayā hataḥ sūtaputro hāmārṣī ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Was that ill-minded, quick-to-anger son of a charioteer—who long ago, in the assembly hall, before the very eyes of the Kauravas, derided us as ‘impotent as empty sesame’—has he now come onto the battlefield and been slain by your hand?”

Word by Word

यःwho

नःof us / our

पुराformerly, earlier

षण्ढतिलान्‘impotent-sesames’ (a contemptuous term: worthless like empty sesame)

अवोचत्said, spoke

सभाin the assembly

मध्येin the middle

कौरवाणाम्of the Kauravas

समक्षम्in the presence (of), before

सःhe

दुर्मतिःevil-minded one, fool

कच्चित्whether indeed? (interrogative particle)

उपेत्यhaving come, having approached

संख्येin battle

त्वयाby you

हतःkilled, slain

सूतपुत्रःthe charioteer’s son (Karna)

हindeed (emphatic particle)

अमर्षीresentful, intolerant (of insult)

Speaker

युधिषछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Kauravas

Karna (Sūtaputra)

Sabhā (royal assembly hall)

Saṅkhya/raṇa (battlefield context)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes