Shloka 16

Adhyāya 112: Bhīṣma-prati Arjunasya Pravṛttiḥ

Arjuna’s Forward Drive Toward Bhīṣma

Devanagari script

एष पाण्डुसुतस्तात श्वेताश्वः कृष्णसारथि: । दहते मामकानू्‌ सर्वान्‌ कृष्णवर्त्मेव काननम्‌,'तात! ये श्वेत घोड़ोंवाले पाण्डुपुत्र अर्जुन, जिनके सारथि श्रीकृष्ण हैं, मेरे सारे सैनिकोंको उसी प्रकार दग्ध करते हैं, जैसे दावानल वनको

Transliteration

eṣa pāṇḍusutas tāta śvetāśvaḥ kṛṣṇasārathiḥ | dahate māmakānūn sarvān kṛṣṇavartmeva kānanam ||

Translation

Disse Sañjaya: “Ó pai venerável, este é o filho de Pāṇḍu — Arjuna — de cavalos brancos e com Kṛṣṇa como cocheiro. Ele está queimando todas as nossas tropas, como um incêndio devora a floresta.”

Word by Word

एषःthis (man)

पाण्डु-सुतःson of Pāṇḍu

तातO dear one / O father (term of address)

श्वेत-अश्वःhaving white horses / white-horsed

कृष्ण-सारथिःwhose charioteer is Kṛṣṇa

दहतेburns / scorches

मामकान्my (men) / belonging to me

सर्वान्all

कृष्ण-वर्त्माblack-tracked (fire) / dark-pathed (conflagration)

इवlike, as

काननम्forest

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Arjuna

Kṛṣṇa

Pāṇḍu

Kaurava army (māmakāḥ)

white horses (śvetāśvāḥ)

forest (kānanam)

wildfire/forest-fire (implied by dahate ... kānanam)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes