Shloka 22

Devanagari script

युधिष्ठिरस्तु मद्रेशं सहदेवश्न मारिष । दशभिर्दशभिर्बाणैरुरस्पेनमविध्यताम्‌,आर्य! साथ ही युधिष्ठिर और सहदेवने दस-दस बाणोंसे उनकी छाती छेद डाली

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | yudhiṣṭhiras tu madreśaṃ sahadevaś ca mārīṣa | daśabhir daśabhir bāṇair uraspenam avidhyatām ||

Translation

ສັນຊະຍະເວົ້າວ່າ: ແລ້ວ ຢຸທິສຖິຣະ ແລະ ສະຫະເທວະ ໂອ ຜູ້ຄວນເຄົາລົບ ໄດ້ຍິງພຣະເຈົ້າແຫ່ງມັດຣະ ຄົນລະສິບລູກສອນ ຈົນທະລຸອົກຂອງລາວ.

Word by Word

युधिष्ठिरःYudhishthira

तुbut/indeed

मद्रेशम्the king of Madra (Shalya)

सहदेवःSahadeva

चand

मारिषO venerable one / O sir

दशभिःwith ten

दशभिःwith ten (each)

बाणैःwith arrows

उरःस्थेनम्the one standing at/near the chest (i.e., in the chest region)

अविध्यताम्they two pierced

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Yudhiṣṭhira

Sahadeva

Madreśa (Śalya)

arrows (bāṇa)

chest (uras)

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?

The verse highlights kṣatriya-dharma in its stark form: even the most dharma-minded rulers must act decisively in battle when duty demands it, while remaining conscious that such violence is undertaken as obligation within a larger moral order, not as personal hatred.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Yudhiṣṭhira and Sahadeva simultaneously strike Śalya, the king of Madra, each with ten arrows, wounding him in the chest during the ongoing battlefield encounter.