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Shloka 13

Virāṭa-parva Adhyāya 54 — Missile-Exchange and Tactical Redirection

Arjuna, Aśvatthāman, Karṇa

Devanagari script

ततः स विद्धों भरतर्षभेण बाणेन गात्रावरणातिगेन । गतासुराजौ निपपात भूमौ नगो नगाग्रादिव वातरुग्ण:

Transliteration

tataḥ sa viddho bharatarṣabheṇa bāṇena gātrāvaraṇātigena | gatāsurājau nipapāta bhūmau nago nagāgrādiva vātarugṇaḥ ||

Translation

Вайшампаяна сказал: Тогда тот царь, поражённый быком среди Бхарат (Арджуной) стрелой, что пробила его доспех и вошла в тело, лишился жизненного дыхания и пал на землю. Как горное дерево, сломленное бурей, низвергается с вершины, так он рухнул с колесницы на поле брани.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

सःhe

विद्धःpierced, wounded

भरतर्षभेणby the bull among the Bharatas (Arjuna)

बाणेनby an arrow

गात्रावरणातिगेनthat had passed through the body-armor (piercing the protective covering)

गतासुःlifeless, whose life had gone

राजाthe king

निपपातfell down

भूमौon the ground

नगःa tree (lit. immovable)

नगाग्रात्from a mountain-peak

इवlike, as if

वातरुग्णःbroken/afflicted by the wind

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Arjuna (implied by 'bharatarṣabha')

bāṇa (arrow)

gātrāvaraṇa (armor)

ratha (chariot, implied by the fall)

bhūmi (ground)

naga/naga-agra (tree and mountain-peak in the simile)

vāta (wind/storm)

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 the inevitability of consequences in righteous conflict: when war is joined under dharma, skill and resolve can bring swift, final outcomes. The storm-torn tree simile stresses impermanence of power and the fragility of embodied life before decisive action.

What is happening in the narrative?

A king is struck by Arjuna’s penetrating arrow that passes through his armor; his life departs and he falls from his chariot onto the battlefield, compared to a great tree blown down from a mountain peak.