Shloka 14

Amba’s Disclosure of Prior Choice (Śālva) and Appeal to Bhīṣma — Chapter 171

Devanagari script

एते रथाश्चातिरथाश्ष तुभ्यं यथाप्रधानं नृप कीर्तिता मया । तथापरे ये<र्धरथाश्न केचित्‌ तथैव तेषामपि कौरवेन्द्र

Transliteration

ete rathāś cātirathāś ca tubhyaṃ yathāpradhānaṃ nṛpa kīrtitā mayā | tathāpare ye ’rdharathāḥ kecit tathaiva teṣām api kauravendra rājan ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက ဆို၏—«အို မင်းကြီး၊ အရေးပါမှုအလိုက် ရထားစစ်သူရဲနှင့် အတိရထားစစ်သူရဲဟု ခေါ်ကြသော ဤသူရဲများကို ငါသည် သင့်အား ဖော်ပြပြီးပြီ။ ထို့အပြင် ‘အရဓရထား’ ဟု ရေတွက်ကြသော အခြားသူတို့ကိုလည်း ငါညွှန်ပြခဲ့၏။ အို ကုရုတို့၏ အရှင်၊ အို မင်းကြီး—ဤသို့ပင် ထိုသူရဲများ၏ စာရင်းသုံးသပ်ချက်ကို တင်ပြပြီးပြီ»။

Word by Word

• एते: these
• एते: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• रथाः: chariot-warriors (rathas)
• रथाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रथ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अतिरथाः: great chariot-warriors (atirathas)
• अतिरथाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अतिरथ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तुभ्यम्: to you
• तुभ्यम्: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine, Dative, Singular

• यथा: according to / as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• प्रधानम्: in order of importance / chiefly
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रधान
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• नृप: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• कीर्तिताः: have been described/mentioned
• Type: Verb
• Root: कीर्तित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural, Passive, क्त (past passive participle)

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• तथा: likewise / so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• अपरे: others
• अपरे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ये: who
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• अर्धरथाः: half-chariot-warriors (ardharathas)
• अर्धरथाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्धरथ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• केचित्: some
• केचित्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम् + चित्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तथा: likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• एव: indeed / just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• तेषाम्: of them
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• अपि: also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• कौरवेन्द्र: O lord of the Kurus
• Type: Noun
• Root: कौरव + इन्द्र
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Kauravendra (Duryodhana as chief of the Kurus)