Sutra 6

Devanagari script

प्रतिहतहताग्रवेगयोः प्रतिहतमग्रपातभग्नं प्रवीरपुरुषसंहतं युध्येत न हताग्रवेगमग्रपातहतवीरम् ॥ कZ_०८.५.०६ ॥

Transliteration

pratihatahatāgravegayoḥ pratihatam agrapātabhagnaṃ pravīrapuruṣasaṃhataṃ yudhyeta na hatāgravegam agrapātahatavīram

Translation

တားဆီးခံထားရသောတပ်နှင့် ရှေ့တိုးအရှိန်ပျက်စီးသွားသောတပ်တို့အကြားတွင်၊ ပထမတိုးဝင်မှု ပျက်ကွက်သော်လည်း ရဲရင့်သူများ စည်းလုံးတည်ငြိမ်နေသေးသော တားဆီးခံတပ်ကို တိုက်ခိုက်သင့်သည်။ ရှေ့တန်းအရှိန် ပျက်စီးပြီး ပထမထိတွေ့တိုက်ခိုက်မှုတွင် ဦးဆောင်သူရဲကောင်းများ သေဆုံးသွားသောတပ်ကိုတော့ မတိုက်ခိုက်သင့်။

Word by Word

• प्रतिहत-हत-अग्र-वेगयोः: of the two (forces/conditions): (one) with vanguard momentum checked and (one) with vanguard momentum destroyed
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: प्रतिहत (ppp √हन्), हत (ppp √हन्), अग्र, वेग
• Form: षष्ठी-द्विवचन; समासपद (द्वन्द्व): (प्रतिहतहताग्रवेग) = ‘whose vanguard-impetus is checked and whose vanguard-impetus is destroyed’; overall genitive dual ‘of the two (cases/forces) …’

• प्रतिहतम्: checked; repulsed
• Type: Adjective (PPP used substantively)
• Root: √हन् (ppp प्रतिहत)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, एकवचन, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (contextually object-qualifier); ‘checked/repulsed’

• अग्रपात-भग्नम्: broken due to a forward collapse/charge-fall at the front
• Type: Noun/Adjective (compound)
• Root: अग्रपात, √भञ्ज् (ppp भग्न)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, एकवचन, प्रथमा/द्वितीया; ‘broken in/at the अग्रपात’

• प्रवीर-पुरुष-संहतम्: a compact formation/body of elite fighting men
• Type: Noun/Adjective (compound)
• Root: प्रवीर, पुरुष, √हन्/√हृ? (संहत = ppp √हन्? actually √हन् not; here ‘संहत’ from √हन् is unlikely; standard ‘संहत’ = ‘assembled/compacted’ from √हन्? better: from √हन् is ‘हत’; ‘संहत’ is adjectival ‘compact’ from √हन्?; lexically ‘saṃhata’ = ‘collected/compact’ from √हन्/√हृ is not right; treat as adjective stem संहत-
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, एकवचन, प्रथमा/द्वितीया; ‘a compact body/mass of elite warriors/men’

• युध्येत: one should fight
• Type: Verb
• Root: √युध्
• Form: लिङ् (विधिलिङ्), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; ‘should fight’

• न: not
• Type: Particle (negation)
• Root: न
• Form: निषेध

• हत-अग्र-वेगम्: (a force) with its vanguard momentum destroyed
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: √हन् (ppp हत), अग्र, वेग
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, एकवचन, द्वितीया; ‘(one) whose vanguard momentum is destroyed’

• अग्रपात-हत-वीरम्: (a force) whose warriors are killed due to a front-line collapse/forward fall
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: अग्रपात, √हन् (ppp हत), वीर
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (contextually army/force as neuter), एकवचन, द्वितीया; ‘(one) whose heroes are slain due to the front-collapse/forward fall’

Entities Mentioned

• enemy vanguard
• elite fighters (vīra)

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FAQs

Why prefer fighting a ‘checked’ but cohesive enemy over one whose vanguard is destroyed?

A cohesive enemy can be fixed and decisively defeated; a collapsing one may fragment, flee, or turn into dispersed violence—raising costs of pursuit and control.