Shloka 19

Adhyāya 14: Śalya’s Missile-Pressure and the Pāṇḍava Convergence (शल्यस्य शरवर्षम्)

Devanagari script

हत्वा तु समरे पार्थ: सहस्रे द्वे परंतप:

Transliteration

hatvā tu samare pārthaḥ sahasre dve paraṃtapaḥ

Translation

Санджая сказал: «В самой гуще сражения Партха (Арджуна), жгущий врагов, сразил две тысячи воинов.»

Word by Word

• हत्वा: having slain
• हत्वा: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: हन् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा, कर्तरि, पूर्वकाल (absolutive/gerund)

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

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

• पार्थः: Partha (Arjuna)
• पार्थः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पार्थ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सहस्रे: two thousands
• सहस्रे: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Dual

• द्वे: two
• द्वे: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वि
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Dual

• परंतपः: foe-scorcher (epithet)
• परंतपः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: परंतप
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pārtha (Arjuna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the terrible scale of war and the warrior’s role within it: heroic effectiveness (paraṃtapaḥ) is praised, yet the act—slaying thousands—also evokes the ethical gravity of violence in a dharma-conflict where duty and destruction coexist.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Arjuna, fighting on the battlefield, killed two thousand opponents, highlighting Arjuna’s dominance in that phase of the Shalya Parva battle account.