Shloka 79

अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च

Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter

Devanagari script

तद्‌ बल॑ भरतश्रेष्ठ वध्यमानं परस्परम्‌ | रुधिरौघपरिक्लिन्नं रुधिरार्द्र बभूव ह

Transliteration

tad balaṁ bharataśreṣṭha vadhyamānaṁ parasparam | rudhiraughapariklinnaṁ rudhirārdrā babhūva ha ||

Translation

Sañjaya berkata: “Wahai yang terbaik di antara keturunan Bharata, bala tentera itu, saling memukul dan dipukul, menjadi basah kuyup oleh aliran darah—terendam dan terserap sepenuhnya oleh darah.”

Word by Word

• तत्: that (army/force)
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• बलम्: army, force
• बलम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: बल
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun (vocative epithet)
• Root: भरत-श्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• वध्यमानम्: being slain, being killed
• वध्यमानम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective/Participle
• Root: वध्यमान (√वध्)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• परस्परम्: mutually, one another
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: परस्पर

• रुधिरौघपरिक्लिन्नम्: soaked with streams of blood
• रुधिरौघपरिक्लिन्नम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुधिर-ओघ-परिक्लिन्न
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• रुधिरार्द्रम्: wet with blood
• रुधिरार्द्रम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुधिर-आर्द्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• बभूव: became, was
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular

• ह: indeed (emphatic particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by address “bharataśreṣṭha”)
• the army/host (bala)