Shloka 776

Devanagari script

परस्परं समासाद्य तव तेषां च संयुगे । भारत! इस प्रकार आपकी और पाण्डवोंकी वे दोनों विशाल सेनाएँ एक-दूसरीसे भिड़कर युद्धस्थलमें रौंदी जा रही थी

Transliteration

parasparaṁ samāsādya tava teṣāṁ ca saṁyuge | bhārata! |

Translation

സഞ്ജയൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഹേ ഭാരത (ധൃതരാഷ്ട്ര)! നിങ്ങളുടെ സേനയും അവരുടെ സേനയും പരസ്പരം സമീപിച്ചു യുദ്ധത്തിൽ ഏറ്റുമുട്ടി; ആ രണ്ടു മഹാസേനകളും रणഭൂമിയിൽ തമ്മിൽ തമ്മിൽ ചവിട്ടിയും തങ്ങളുമെല്ലാം ചവിട്ടപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്തു।

Word by Word

परस्परम्mutually, each other

समासाद्यhaving approached/encountered

तवof you/your

तेषाम्of them/their

चand

संयुगेin the battle/engagement

भारतO Bharata

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (addressed as Bhārata)

Kaurava army (tava senā)

Pāṇḍava army (teṣām senā)

battlefield (raṇabhūmi/saṁyuga context)

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 underscores the grave human cost of war: once armies ‘close in’ (samāsādya), violence becomes reciprocal and indiscriminate—trampling and being trampled—highlighting how conflict consumes both sides and intensifies the consequences of adharma-driven rivalry.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the two great forces—his (the Kauravas) and theirs (the Pāṇḍavas)—have met head-on in battle and are crushing each other in the press of combat on the battlefield.