Shloka 29

Devanagari script

ततो भीमो रुषाविष्ट: पुत्रस्य तव मारिष | सारथिं चतुरश्चाश्वान्‌ शरैर्निन्ये यमक्षयम्‌,आर्य! फिर रोषसे आविष्ट हुए भीमसेनने अपने बाणोंद्वारा आपके पुत्रके सारथि और चारों घोड़ोंको यमलोक पहुँचा दिया

Transliteration

tato bhīmo ruṣāviṣṭaḥ putrasya tava māriṣa | sārathiṁ caturaś cāśvān śarair ninye yamakṣayam ||

Translation

Санджая сказал: Тогда Бхима, охваченный яростью, о досточтимый, своими стрелами отправил возничего твоего сына и четырёх коней в обитель Ямы.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

भीमःBhima

रुषाwith anger

आविष्टःpossessed, seized (by)

पुत्रस्यof (your) son

तवof you, your

मारिषO venerable one (sir)

सारथिम्charioteer

चतुरःfour

चand

अश्वान्horses

शरैःwith arrows

निन्येled, sent

यमक्षयम्to Yama's abode (death)

आर्यO noble one

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīma (Bhīmasena)

Yama

your son (putra) (contextually a Kaurava prince)

charioteer (sārathi)

four horses (aśvāḥ)

arrows (śarāḥ)

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 anger (krodha/roṣa) can rapidly drive destructive action in war, raising an ethical tension central to the Mahābhārata: even when fighting is framed as duty, uncontrolled wrath intensifies cruelty and accelerates death.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Bhīma, enraged, shoots arrows that kill the enemy prince’s charioteer and the four horses, effectively disabling the chariot and sending them to Yama’s realm (death).