Shloka 119

Devanagari script

वासुदेवसहस्रं वा फाल्गुनानां शतानि वा । आसाद्य माममोधेषुं द्रविष्पन्ति दिशो दश,“हजारों श्रीकृष्ण और सैकड़ों अर्जुन भी अमोघ बाणोंवाले मुझ वीरके पास आकर दसों दिशाओंमें भाग जायँगे

Transliteration

vāsudeva-sahasraṃ vā phālgunānāṃ śatāni vā | āsādya mām amogheṣuṃ draviṣyanti diśo daśa ||

Translation

Sañjaya disse: “Ainda que mil Vāsudevas ou centenas de Phālgunas viessem enfrentar-me—eu, cujas flechas jamais falham—seriam forçados a fugir para as dez direções.”

Word by Word

वासुदेवसहस्रम्a thousand (of) Vāsudevas (Kṛṣṇas)

वाor

फाल्गुनानाम्of (the) Phālguna(s) (Arjuna)

शतानिhundreds

वाor

आसाद्यhaving approached / reaching

माम्me

अमोघेषुम्one whose arrows are unfailing (unerring-armed)

द्रविष्यन्तिwill run / will flee

दिशःthe directions

दशten

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)

Phālguna (Arjuna)

amogha-īṣu (unfailing arrows)

daśa diśaḥ (the ten directions)

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 highlights how martial pride and intimidation can distort judgment and harden positions, a key ethical pressure-point in Udyoga Parva where the choice between negotiation and war is still open but increasingly undermined by arrogance.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the lead-up to the Kurukṣetra war, a speaker (reported by Sañjaya) proclaims extraordinary confidence: even if Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna were multiplied many times over, they would still be driven to flee—an expression meant to project dominance and discourage opposition.