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Shloka 35

द्रोणपर्व (अध्याय १) — भीष्मनिधनानन्तरं धृतराष्ट्रस्य शोकः, सेनायाः स्थितिः, कर्णस्मरणं च

Droṇa Parva, Chapter 1: Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s grief after Bhīṣma’s fall and the army’s reorientation toward Karṇa

भीष्मेण हि महाबाहु: सर्वक्षत्रस्थ पश्यत:,राजन! बात यह हुई थी कि जब बल और पराक्रमसे सुशोभित रथियोंकी गणना की जा रही थी, उस समय समस्त क्षत्रियोंके देखते-देखते भीष्मजीने महाबाहु नरश्रेष्ठ कर्णको अर्धरथी बता दिया। यद्यपि वह दो रथियोंके समान है

bhīṣmeṇa hi mahābāhuḥ sarvakṣatrastha-paśyataḥ, rājan, bala-parākrama-sampannānāṃ rathināṃ gaṇanāyāṃ kriyamāṇāyāṃ samastakṣatriyāṇāṃ paśyatāṃ bhīṣmaḥ mahābāhuṃ naraśreṣṭhaṃ karṇam ardhārathīti nyavedayat; yadyapi sa dvau rathinau samānaḥ.

သဉ္ဇယက ပြောသည်– အို မင်းကြီး၊ အင်အားနှင့် သတ္တိကြောင့် တောက်ပသော စစ်သူရဲတို့ကို အကဲဖြတ်၍ အဆင့်သတ်မှတ်နေစဉ်၊ ဘီရှ္မသည် ခ္ෂတ္တရိယအားလုံး မြင်ကြားနေသည့်အလယ်၌ အင်အားကြီးလက်မောင်းရှိသော ကර්ဏကို “အာဓရထ” (ရထားသူရဲတစ်ဝက်) ဟု ကြေညာခဲ့၏။ သို့ရာတွင် အမှန်အားဖြင့် ကර්ဏသည် ရထားသူရဲပြည့်ဝ နှစ်ဦးနှင့် တန်းတူသူ ဖြစ်၏။

भीष्मेणby Bhishma
भीष्मेण:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootभीष्म
FormMasculine, Instrumental, Singular
हिindeed/for
हि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootहि
महाबाहुःthe mighty-armed (one)
महाबाहुः:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootमहाबाहु
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
सर्वक्षत्रस्थin the presence of all Kshatriyas
सर्वक्षत्रस्थ:
Adhikarana
TypeAdjective
Rootसर्व-क्षत्र-स्थ
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
पश्यतःwhile (they) were seeing / of the onlooker
पश्यतः:
TypeAdjective
Rootपश्यत् (√पश्)
FormMasculine, Genitive, Singular
राजन्O king
राजन्:
TypeNoun
Rootराजन्
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular

संजय उवाच

S
Sañjaya
D
Dhṛtarāṣṭra
B
Bhīṣma
K
Karṇa
K
kṣatriyas
R
rathis (chariot-warriors)

Educational Q&A

The verse highlights how status and public reputation in a dharma-bound warrior culture can be shaped by authoritative pronouncements and personal rivalries, not only by actual capability. Ethical discernment requires separating true merit from politically charged evaluations.

During a formal assessment of chariot-warriors, Bhīṣma publicly classifies Karṇa as a lower-ranked fighter (half-ratha) before the assembled kṣatriyas, even though Karṇa’s prowess is described as equal to two full rathis. Sañjaya reports this to Dhṛtarāṣṭra as part of the background tensions among Kaurava leaders.