Shloka 10

Chapter 136: Pandava Counter-Encirclement and the Vāyavya-Astra Disruption

Devanagari script

ततो भीमो महाबाहु: क्रोधसंरक्तलोचन: । वज्जकल्पां चतुष्किष्कुं गुर्वी रुक्माड़दां गदाम्‌

Transliteration

tato bhīmo mahābāhuḥ krodha-saṃrakta-locanaḥ | vajra-kalpāṃ catuṣkiṣkuṃ gurvīṃ rukmāṅgadāṃ gadām ||

Translation

ਤਦ ਮਹਾਬਾਹੁ ਭੀਮ, ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਨਾਲ ਲਾਲ ਅੱਖਾਂ ਕਰਕੇ, ਵਜ੍ਰ ਵਰਗੀ ਕਠੋਰ ਚਾਰ ਹੱਥ ਲੰਬੀ ਅਤੇ ਸੋਨੇ ਨਾਲ ਸਜੀ ਭਾਰੀ ਗਦਾ ਚੁੱਕ ਲਿਆ।

Word by Word

• ततः: then, thereafter
• ततः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (तद्-प्रातिपदिकात् अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (स्थान/कालवाचक)

• भीमः: Bhima
• भीमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीम
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• महाबाहुः: mighty-armed
• महाबाहुः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाबाहु
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• क्रोधसंरक्तलोचनः: whose eyes were reddened with anger
• क्रोधसंरक्तलोचनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रोध-संरक्त-लोचन
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• वज्रकल्पाम्: thunderbolt-like
• वज्रकल्पाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वज्रकल्पा (वज्र-कल्प)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• चतुष्किष्कुम्: of four kishkus (in measure/length)
• चतुष्किष्कुम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुष्किष्कु
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• गुर्वीम्: heavy
• गुर्वीम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गुर्वी (गुरु-स्त्रीलिङ्ग)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• रुक्माङ्गदाम्: with golden ornaments/armlets (gold-adorned)
• रुक्माङ्गदाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुक्म-अङ्गदा
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• गदाम्: mace
• गदाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गदा
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• भीम (Bhīma)
• गदा (mace)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how intense anger can seize even a great hero at the height of war, and how martial power (symbolized by the thunderbolt-like mace) becomes an instrument of duty and destruction. It implicitly warns that wrath amplifies violence, even when one acts within the battlefield’s code.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya narrates that Bhīma, overcome with fury, takes up his formidable, gold-adorned mace—described as thunderbolt-like and four cubits long—signaling his readiness to strike in the ongoing combat of the Droṇa Parva.