Shloka 66

Devanagari script

सहस्रशो<श्चांक्ष पुन: स सादी- नष्ट सहस््राणि च पत्तिवीरान्‌

Transliteration

sahasraśo 'śvān kṣipunaḥ sa sādīn naṣṭa-sahasrāṇi ca pattivīrān

Translation

Санджая сказал: Снова и снова он валил коней тысячами вместе с их всадниками и также истреблял тысячи пеших воинов. Повествование подчёркивает ужасающий размах бойни на войне: когда доблесть не сдержана состраданием, поле битвы превращается в картину массового уничтожения.

Word by Word

• सहस्रशः: by thousands, in thousands
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सहस्रशस्
• Form: Avyaya (adverb)

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya (conjunction)

• आक्षिपत्: he struck/overthrew, he hurled down
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-क्षिप्
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), Parasmaipada, 3rd person singular

• पुनः: again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः
• Form: Avyaya (adverb)

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• सादीन्: riders/horsemen (mounted warriors)
• सादीन्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सादिन्
• Form: Masculine, accusative, plural

• नष्ट: destroyed, perished
• Type: Verb
• Root: नश्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), masculine nominative singular (used predicatively/elliptically)

• सहस्राणि: thousands
• सहस्राणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र
• Form: Neuter, accusative, plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya (conjunction)

• पत्तिवीरान्: infantry-warriors (foot-soldier heroes)
• पत्तिवीरान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पत्तिवीर
• Form: Masculine, accusative, plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• अश्व (horses)
• सादी (riders/horsemen)
• पत्तिवीर (infantry warriors)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the immense destructiveness of war: martial skill can rapidly annihilate countless lives. Ethically, it invites reflection on how power and valor, when exercised in a context of hatred and rivalry, produce suffering on a massive scale.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a warrior’s overwhelming assault on the battlefield: horses and their riders are cut down in thousands, and large numbers of infantry are also destroyed, emphasizing the intensity and imbalance of the combat at that moment.