Shloka 6

Adhyāya 36: Ghora-yuddha-varṇanam

A Clinical Description of the Intensified Engagement

Devanagari script

मृगपक्षिगणाश्वैव पृतनां बहुशस्तव । अपसव्यं तदा चक्रुरवेदयन्तो महाभयम्‌,बहुतेरे मृग और पक्षी महान्‌ भयकी सूचना देते हुए अनेक बार आपकी सेनाको दाहिने करके चले गये

Transliteration

mṛgapakṣigaṇāś caiva pṛtanāṃ bahuśas tava | apasavyaṃ tadā cakrur avedayanto mahābhayam ||

Translation

Sañjaya disse: “Então, manadas de cervos e bandos de aves moveram-se repetidas vezes ao redor do teu exército num curso infausto (para a esquerda), como se proclamassem um grande terror por vir.”

Word by Word

• मृग: deer
• मृग: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मृग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पक्षि-गणाः: flocks of birds
• पक्षि-गणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पक्षि-गण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अश्वाः: horses
• अश्वाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अश्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• एव: indeed/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• पृतनाम्: the army
• पृतनाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृतना
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• बहुशः: many times/repeatedly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहुशः

• तव: of you/your
• तव: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

• अपसव्यम्: to the left (inauspiciously), counterclockwise
• अपसव्यम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपसव्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तदा: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• चक्रुः: they did/made
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Plural

• अवेदयन्तः: making known/indicating
• अवेदयन्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: अवेदयत् (from causative of √विद्/√वेद् 'to make known')
• Form: Present active participle, Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• महाभयम्: great fear
• महाभयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभय
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by 'tava')
• Kaurava army (pṛtanā)
• deer (mṛga)
• birds (pakṣi)