Bhishma Parva Adhyaya 119 Shloka 45 - Mahabharata | Sanskrit | Vedapath

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Shloka 45

Devanagari script

द्रोण: पाञउ्चालपुत्रेण समागम्य महारणे । महासमुदयं चक्रे शरैः संनतपर्वभि:,द्रोणाचार्यने उस महासमरमें पांचालराजकुमार धृष्टद्युम्नसे भिड़कर झुकी हुई गाँठवाले बहुसंख्यक बाणोंद्वारा बड़ा भारी युद्ध किया

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

droṇaḥ pāñcālaputreṇa samāgamya mahāraṇe |

mahāsamudayaṃ cakre śaraiḥ sannatapārva-bhiḥ ||

Translation

द्रोणः पाञ्चालपुत्रेण समागम्य महारणे । महासमुदयं चक्रे शरैः संनतपर्वभिः ॥

Word by Word

द्रोणःDrona

पाञ्चालपुत्रेणwith the son of the Panchala (Dhrishtadyumna)

समागम्यhaving met/encountered

महारणेin the great battle

महासमुदयम्a great onslaught/mass (of arrows/attack)

चक्रेmade/caused

शरैःwith arrows

संनतपर्वभिःhaving bent joints/knots (i.e., barbed/knotted)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Droṇa (Droṇācārya)

Pāñcāla

Dhṛṣṭadyumna

arrows (śara)

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, in war, personal destinies and rivalries (Droṇa and Dhṛṣṭadyumna) intensify violence; it implicitly raises the ethical tension between kṣatriya-duty to fight and the destructive momentum that such duty can unleash.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Droṇa directly engages Dhṛṣṭadyumna in the great battle and unleashes a massive, concentrated attack by firing a multitude of arrows, escalating the combat between them.