Shloka 21

Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 53: Arjuna’s Jayadratha-vadha Pratijñā and Droṇa’s Protective Vyūha (शकटा-पद्म व्यूहः)

Devanagari script

| ८22 4१; “4 + ३] ॥। 25. ६८22 9 ऐ 2 «95 ५ का] ९ प्र चक्र, प्र ॥727.।॥ 5 ्श फट ५ “2-- न. १:22. _ त्वं हि संहारबुद्धाथ प्रादुर्भूता रुषो मम । तस्मात्‌ संहर सर्वास्त्वं प्रजाः:सजडपण्डिता:

Transliteration

tvaṁ hi saṁhārabuddhyārthaṁ prādurbhūtā ruṣo mama | tasmāt saṁhara sarvāstvam prajāḥ sajada-paṇḍitāḥ ||

Translation

ତୁମେ ମୋ କ୍ରୋଧରୁ ସଂହାରବୁଦ୍ଧି ନିମିତ୍ତେ ପ୍ରକଟ ହୋଇଛ। ତେଣୁ ଜଡ ହେଉ କି ପଣ୍ଡିତ—ଭେଦ ନ କରି—ଏହି ସମସ୍ତ ପ୍ରଜାଙ୍କୁ ସଂହାର କର।

Word by Word

त्वम्you

हिindeed/for

संहारबुद्धिःone whose intent is destruction / destructive intention

अथthen/now

प्रादुर्भूताhas manifested/appeared

रुषाwith anger

ममof me/my

तस्मात्therefore/from that

संहरdestroy/withdraw

सर्वाःall

त्वम्you

प्रजाःcreatures/subjects

सजडपण्डिताःtogether with the dull and the learned (i.e., all alike)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames destruction as an instrument of a larger order: a force born of anger is tasked to dissolve beings without regard to social or intellectual status. Ethically, it highlights the terrifying impartiality of death/destruction and the danger of wrath becoming a legitimizing cause.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada addresses a destructive power/personified force that has arisen from his own anger, stating that its very purpose is saṁhāra (destruction) and commanding it to annihilate all beings—both the ignorant (jaḍa) and the learned (paṇḍita).