Shloka 40

Duryodhana’s Anxiety, Bhīṣma’s Reassurance, and Renewed Mobilization (दुर्योधनचिन्ता–भीष्मप्रत्याश्वासन–सेनानिर्गमनम्)

Devanagari script

तावकाश्न महेष्वासा: पाण्डवाश्न महारथा: | जुद्वन्त: समरे प्राणान्‌ निजघ्नुरितरेतरम्‌,आपके और पाण्डवपक्षके महाधनुर्धर महारथी वीर समरांगणमें प्राणोंकी आहुति देते हुए एक-दूसरेको मार रहे थे

Transliteration

tāvakāś ca maheṣvāsāḥ pāṇḍavāś ca mahārathāḥ | yudhvantaḥ samare prāṇān nijaghnur itaretaram ||

Translation

Санджая сказал: Твои могучие лучники и великие колесничие воины Пандавов, сойдясь в битве на поле, поражали друг друга — словно приносили собственные жизни в жертву ярости войны.

Word by Word

• तावकाः: your (Kaurava) men
• तावकाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: तावक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• महेष्वासाः: great bowmen
• महेष्वासाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महेष्वास
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पाण्डवाः: the Pandavas
• पाण्डवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• महारथाः: great chariot-warriors
• महारथाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महारथ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• युध्यन्तः: fighting
• युध्यन्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: युध्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• प्राणान्: lives, vital breaths
• प्राणान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• निजघ्नुः: they struck down / killed
• Type: Verb
• Root: हन्
• Form: Perfect (लिट्), Parasmaipada, Third, Plural

• इतरेतरम्: each other, mutually
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इतरेतर

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by 'tāvakāḥ')
• Kauravas (tāvakāḥ)
• Pāṇḍavas