Shloka 13

Adhyāya 41 — Kṛṣṇa’s Battlefield Briefing and the Renewal of the Great Engagement

Devanagari script

अपां पतिर्वेगवानप्रमेयो निमज्जयिष्यन्‌ बहुला: प्रजाश्न

Transliteration

apāṁ patir vegavān aprameyo nimajjayiṣyan bahulāḥ prajāḥ

Translation

ਸੰਜਯ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ—ਜਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਪਤੀ, ਤੇਜ਼ ਅਤੇ ਅਪਾਰ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਅਨੇਕਾਂ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਡੁੱਬੋ ਦੇਣ ਲਈ ਉਤਾਵਲਾ ਹੋਵੇ।

Word by Word

• अपाम्: of waters
• अपाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप्
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• पतिः: lord
• पतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वेगवान्: swift, impetuous
• वेगवान्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वेगवत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अप्रमेयः: immeasurable, unfathomable
• अप्रमेयः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अप्रमेय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• निमज्जयिष्यन्: intending to sink / about to submerge (causing to sink)
• निमज्जयिष्यन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: निमज्जय् (causative of निमज्ज्)
• Form: Future (periphrastic/causative future stem), Present active participle used with future sense (शतृ-प्रत्यय), nominative masculine singular

• बहुलाः: many, numerous
• बहुलाः: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहुल
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• प्रजाः: creatures, subjects
• प्रजाः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• अपां पतिः (Lord of the waters / ocean as a metaphorical force)
• प्रजाः (the people/subjects)