Shloka 4

शल्यस्य सेनापत्याभ्युपगमः | Śalya’s Acceptance of Command

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमद्याभारत शल्यपर्वमें कृपाचार्यका वचनविषयक चौथा अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

gāhamānam anīkāni yudhyamānaṁ mahārathaiḥ | pāṇḍavair ati-tejobhir lokaḥ tvām anudarśitavān ||

Translation

သဉ္ဇယက ပြောသည်—«လူအများသည် သင်ကို ရန်သူတပ်ဖွဲ့အတွင်းသို့ ထိုးဝင်ကာ ထိုနေရာ၌ အလွန်တောက်ပသော ပाण्डဝ မဟာရഥီတို့နှင့် တိုက်ခိုက်နေသည်ကို မကြာခဏ မြင်တွေ့ခဲ့ကြသည်။» ဤစကားသည် စစ်မြေပြင်၏ သတ္တိသည် အပြောအဆိုမက၊ လူအများ၏ မျက်စိရှေ့၌ သက်သေပြထားသော အရာဖြစ်ကြောင်းကို ထင်ရှားစေသည်။ ဓမ္မစစ်ပွဲ၌ ကောင်းသတင်းကောင်းနာမည်သည် အန္တရာယ်အလယ်တွင် မြင်သာသော အပြုအမူဖြင့် တည်ဆောက်된다။

Word by Word

• गाहमानम्: entering/plunging into
• गाहमानम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: गाह्
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• अनीकानि: armies, battle-formations
• अनीकानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनीक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• युध्यमानम्: fighting
• युध्यमानम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: युध्
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• महारथैः: with great chariot-warriors
• महारथैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महारथ
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• पाण्डवैः: with the Pandavas
• पाण्डवैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• अतितेजोभिः: with exceedingly brilliant (ones)
• अतितेजोभिः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अतितेजस्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• लोकः: the people, everyone
• लोकः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• त्वाम्: you
• त्वाम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• अनुदृष्टवान्: has repeatedly seen
• अनुदृष्टवान्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश्
• Form: क्तवतु (परिपूर्ण भूत), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pāṇḍavas
• anīkāni (battle-formations/armies)
• mahārathas (great chariot-warriors)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

In a dharma-framed war narrative, true valor and duty are established through observable action: the public repeatedly witnesses the warrior entering enemy formations and standing firm against formidable opponents, making reputation a matter of demonstrated conduct rather than mere assertion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that the warrior addressed has been seen again and again charging into hostile battle-arrays and fighting the brilliant Pāṇḍava champions—an affirmation of intense frontline engagement against elite adversaries.