Shloka 31

Devanagari script

सुयोधनं चापि रणे हनिष्यति वृकोदर:

Transliteration

suyodhanaṃ cāpi raṇe haniṣyati vṛkodaraḥ

Translation

Dewa Vāyu mengisytiharkan bahawa bahkan Suyodhana (Duryodhana) pun akan terbunuh di medan perang oleh Vṛkodara (Bhīma). Kata-kata itu membingkai lengkung moral peperangan: keangkuhan dan adharma, walau berkuasa untuk suatu ketika, akhirnya menuju kejatuhan yang tidak terelakkan; dan agen pembalasan yang telah ditetapkan menjadi alat yang melaluinya keadilan dipulihkan.

Word by Word

• सुयोधनम्: Suyodhana (Duryodhana)
• सुयोधनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुयोधन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• रणे: in battle
• रणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: रण
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• हनिष्यति: will kill
• Type: Verb
• Root: हन्
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• वृकोदरः: Vṛkodara (Bhīma; 'wolf-bellied')
• वृकोदरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृकोदर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

श्रीवायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu-deva
• Suyodhana (Duryodhana)
• Vṛkodara (Bhīma)
• battle (raṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the ethical inevitability that adharma-driven power collapses: wrongdoing ripens into consequences, and the restoration of dharma occurs through appointed human agency—in this case, Bhīma as the instrument of justice.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu-deva speaks a predictive declaration: Bhīma (Vṛkodara) will kill Suyodhana (Duryodhana) in battle, foreshadowing Duryodhana’s end and reinforcing the war’s moral trajectory.