Shloka 286

Adhyāya 21 — Duryodhanasya bāṇavarṣaḥ

Duryodhana’s Arrow-Storm and the Dust-Obscured Engagements

Devanagari script

अभ्यधावत्‌ कृपो राजन्‌ जिधघांसु: शिनिपुज्भवम्‌ | शत्रुदमन नरेश! कृतवर्माके घोड़ों और सारथिको मारा गया देख कृपाचार्य सात्यकिको मार डालनेकी इच्छासे वहाँ दौड़े हुए आये

Transliteration

abhyadhāvat kṛpo rājan jighāṃsuḥ śinipūjabhavam | śatrudamana nareśa kṛtavarmāke ghōṛōṃ aura sārathikō mārā gayā dēkha kṛpācārya sātyakiko mār ḍālanekī icchāse vahāṃ dauṛe huē āye

Translation

शत्रुदमन नरेश! कृतवर्माचे घोडे व सारथी मारले गेलेले पाहून, शिनिवंशी सात्यकीला ठार मारण्याच्या इच्छेने कृपाचार्य तेथे धावून गेले।

Word by Word

• अभ्यधावत्: ran towards / rushed
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-धाव्
• Form: लङ् (Imperfect), 3, Singular, परस्मैपदम्

• कृपः: Kripa
• कृपः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृप
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• जिघांसुः: desiring to kill
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हन् (धातु) → जिघांसु (इच्छार्थक कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शिनिपुत्रभवम्: the descendant of Shini (Satyaki)
• शिनिपुत्रभवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिनि-पुत्र-भव
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Kripa (Kṛpācārya)
• Sātyaki (Śini-descendant)
• Kṛtavarmā
• King (Dhṛtarāṣṭra implied by address)
• horses
• charioteers

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how battlefield loyalty and retaliation can swiftly escalate into personal vendetta. It implicitly cautions that even revered figures (like a preceptor) may be driven by wrath and factional duty, showing the ethical strain war places on discernment (dharma-viveka).

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to the king that Kṛpācārya, seeing Kṛtavarmā’s horses and charioteers killed, charges forward with the intention of killing Sātyaki, identified as a descendant of the Śini lineage.