Shloka 19

Devanagari script

ततो मुहूर्तादिव पार्थिवेन्द्रो लब्ध्वा संज्ञां क्रोधसंरक्तनेत्र: । शतेन पार्थ त्वरितो जघान सहसनेत्रप्रतिमप्रभाव:,तब इन्द्रके समान प्रभावशाली राजा शल्यने दो ही घड़ीमें होशमें आकर क्रोधसे लाल आँखें करके बड़ी उतावलीके साथ युधिष्ठिरको सौ बाण मारे

Transliteration

tato muhūrtād iva pārthivendro labdhvā saṃjñāṃ krodha-saṃrakta-netraḥ | śatena pārtha tvarito jaghāna sahasra-netra-pratima-prabhāvaḥ ||

Translation

പിന്നീട് ഒരു മുഹൂർത്തം മാത്രമെന്നപോലെ രാജാധിരാജൻ ശല്യൻ ബോധം വീണ്ടെടുത്തു. ക്രോധത്തിൽ ചുവന്ന കണ്ണുകളോടെ, സഹസ്രനേത്രനായ ഇന്ദ്രനെപ്പോലെ പ്രഭാവമുള്ളവനായി, അവൻ ത്വരിതമായി പാർഥനെ (യുധിഷ്ഠിരനെ) നൂറു അമ്പുകളാൽ പ്രഹരിച്ചു.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

मुहूर्तात्from/after a short time (a muhūrta)

इवas if, like

पार्थिवेन्द्रःking (lord of kings/earth)

लब्ध्वाhaving obtained

संज्ञाम्consciousness, awareness

क्रोधसंरक्तनेत्रःwhose eyes were reddened with anger

शतेनwith a hundred (arrows)

पार्थम्Pārtha (Arjuna/Yudhiṣṭhira); here: Pārtha (the target)

त्वरितःhastened, quickly

जघानstruck, smote

सहसनेत्रप्रतिमप्रभावःwhose splendor was like that of the thousand-eyed (Indra)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Pārtha (Yudhiṣṭhira)

Śalya

Indra (Sahasranetra)

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 how anger (krodha), once it takes hold, can rapidly intensify violence even in a ruler; it implicitly warns that loss of inner restraint in war leads to disproportionate harm and moral decline.

What is happening in the narrative?

After briefly losing consciousness, King Śalya regains his senses, becomes enraged, and quickly shoots Yudhiṣṭhira (called Pārtha) with a hundred arrows, his power likened to Indra’s.