Shloka 9

Bhīṣma’s Recollection of the Duel: Charioteer’s Fall, Brahmin Protection, and Portents after Rāma’s Collapse

Devanagari script

स तेनाभिहतो वीरो ललाटे द्विजसत्तम: । अशोभत महाराज सशज़् इव पर्वत:,उस बाणने विप्रवर वीर परशुरामजीके ललाटमें चोट पहुँचायी। महाराज! उसके कारण वे शिखरयुक्त पर्वतके समान शोभा पाने लगे

Transliteration

sa tenābhihato vīro lalāṭe dvijasattamaḥ | aśobhat mahārāja saśṛṅga iva parvataḥ ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက ပြောသည်— «ထိုမြားကြောင့် ထိခိုက်ခံရသော သူရဲကောင်း၊ ဒွိဇတို့အနက် အမြတ်ဆုံး ပရရှုရာမသည် နဖူး၌ ဒဏ်ရာရ၏။ အရှင်မင်းကြီး၊ ထိုအမှတ်အသားကြောင့် သူသည် ထိပ်တောင်တင်ထားသော တောင်တစ်လုံးကဲ့သို့ တောက်ပလှပလာ၏»။

Word by Word

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तेन: by him / by that
• तेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• अभिहतः: struck, smitten
• अभिहतः: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-हन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, Past passive participle (क्त)

• वीरः: the hero
• वीरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वीर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• ललाटे: on the forehead
• ललाटे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ललाट
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• द्विजसत्तमः: the best of Brahmins
• द्विजसत्तमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्विज-सत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अशोभत: shone, appeared splendid
• Type: Verb
• Root: शुभ्
• Form: Imperfect (लङ्), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• महाराज: O great king
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा-राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• सशृङ्गः: having a peak (peaked)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स-शृङ्ग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• पर्वतः: a mountain
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर्वत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Paraśurāma
• Mahārāja (the king addressed, i.e., Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• arrow (bāṇa)