Shloka 26

Devanagari script

ततः सर्वमहीपानां क्षपयित्वा वरूथिनीम्‌

Transliteration

tataḥ sarva-mahīpānāṁ kṣapayitvā varūthinīm

Translation

ततः सर्वमहीपानां क्षपयित्वा वरूथिनीम्।

Word by Word

• ततः: then; thereafter
• ततः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (तद्-प्रातिपदिकात् अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (तस्मात्/ततः = thereafter/from there)

• सर्व: of all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे षष्ठी बहुवचनम् (समासपूर्वपदत्वेन)

• महीपानाम्: of kings (lords of the earth)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महीप (मही + प)
• Form: पुंलिङ्गे षष्ठी बहुवचनम्

• क्षपयित्वा: having destroyed
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्षप् (caus. क्षपय-)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (absolutive/gerund): having caused to perish/destroyed

• वरूथिनीम्: the army; host
• वरूथिनीम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वरूथिनी
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्गे द्वितीया एकवचनम्

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• mahīpāḥ (kings)
• varūthinī (army/battle-array)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the fragility of worldly power in war: even vast royal forces (‘all the kings’) can be rapidly exhausted and destroyed. Ethically, it points to the heavy cost of conflict and the way martial pride collapses under the reality of violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that a warrior (implied from the surrounding context) has broken down the combined battle formation/host of many kings, effectively routing or annihilating their organized force as the battle continues.