Shloka 84

Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 47 — Arjuna’s Deterrent Declaration

Sañjaya’s Report

Devanagari script

तत्रैव तेनास्य बभूव युद्ध महाबलेनातिबलस्य विष्णो: । शेते स कृष्णेन हत: परासु- वतिनेवोन्मथित: कर्णिकार:

Transliteration

tatraiva tenāsya babhūva yuddhaṃ mahābalenātibalasya viṣṇoḥ | śete sa kṛṣṇena hataḥ parāsu-vātinevonmathitaḥ karṇikāraḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya berkata: Di tempat itu juga, Viṣṇu—yang kekuatannya tiada terukur—bertempur dengan musuh yang amat perkasa itu. Ditumpaskan oleh Kṛṣṇa, dia kehilangan nyawa dan rebah di medan perang untuk selama-lamanya, bagaikan pohon karṇikāra yang tercabut oleh angin ribut. Perumpamaan ini menegaskan bahawa setinggi mana pun keangkuhan kekuatan, ia akan runtuh apabila menentang kuasa yang benar dan dipandu ilahi.

Word by Word

• {'tatraiva': 'right there, on that very spot', 'tena': 'with him

• by that (foe)', 'asya': 'of him', 'babhūva': 'there occurred

• came to be', 'yuddham': 'battle, combat', 'mahābalena': 'by/with the very mighty one', 'atibalasya': 'of the exceedingly strong', 'viṣṇoḥ': 'of Viṣṇu (here, Kṛṣṇa as the divine power)', 'śete': 'lies, rests (on the ground)', 'sa': 'he', 'kṛṣṇena': 'by Kṛṣṇa', 'hataḥ': 'slain, struck down', 'parāsuḥ': 'bereft of life

• dead', 'vātinā': 'by the wind/storm', 'iva': 'like, as if', 'unmathitaḥ': 'uprooted, violently torn out', 'karṇikāraḥ': 'karṇikāra tree (a flowering tree

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Kṛṣṇa
• Viṣṇu
• Narakāsura
• battlefield
• karṇikāra tree
• wind/storm

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the moral that sheer physical might and arrogance are fragile when opposed by dharmic, divinely aligned action; death comes swiftly to those who stand against righteous order, and poetic imagery (the uprooted tree) stresses impermanence and the decisive fall of adharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a fierce combat in which Kṛṣṇa (identified with Viṣṇu) fights an extremely powerful enemy (identified in the accompanying Hindi as Narakāsura) and kills him; the slain foe lies on the battlefield like a tree uprooted by a storm.