Shloka 11

Devanagari script

भिन्नानां चोत्तमाड़ानां बाहूनां चोरुभि: सह । कुण्डलानां प्रवृद्धानां भूषणानां च भारत,भारत! वहाँ भूतलपर कटे हुए मस्तकों, भुजाओं, जाँघों, बड़े-बड़े कुण्डलों, अन्यान्य आभूषणों, निष्कों, धनुर्धर शूरवीरोंके शरीरों, ढालों और पताकाओंके ढेर-के-ढेर पड़े थे

Transliteration

bhinnānāṁ cottamāṅgānāṁ bāhūnāṁ corubhiḥ saha | kuṇḍalānāṁ pravṛddhānāṁ bhūṣaṇānāṁ ca bhārata ||

Translation

Disse Sañjaya: “Ó Bhārata, o chão estava coalhado de cabeças decepadas, e de braços e coxas, juntamente com grandes brincos salientes e outros ornamentos. O campo de batalha exibia a consequência sombria da ira e da rivalidade sem freio—onde tanto o valor quanto o orgulho eram reduzidos a fragmentos sem vida, advertindo que o conflito movido pelo adharma transforma todo esplendor mundano em ruína.”

Word by Word

भिन्नानाम्of the severed/broken

चand

उत्तमाङ्गानाम्of heads (lit. best-limbs)

बाहूनाम्of arms

चand

ऊरुभिःwith thighs

सहtogether with

कुण्डलानाम्of earrings

प्रवृद्धानाम्of large/fully grown

भूषणानाम्of ornaments

चand

भारतO Bharata

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhārata (Dhṛtarāṣṭra as addressee)

severed heads (uttamāṅga)

arms (bāhu)

thighs (ūru)

earrings (kuṇḍala)

ornaments (bhūṣaṇa)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the impermanence of bodily beauty and worldly adornment: in war driven by adharma, even valor and splendor collapse into destruction, urging reflection on restraint, right conduct, and the cost of hatred.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes the battlefield to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, emphasizing the horrific scene—severed heads, limbs, and scattered ornaments—conveying the scale and brutality of the fighting in the Karṇa Parva.