Shloka 10

Devanagari script

ततो भीमो महाबाहु: क्रोधसंरक्तलोचन: । वज्जकल्पां चतुष्किष्कुं गुर्वी रुक्माड़दां गदाम्‌

Transliteration

tato bhīmo mahābāhuḥ krodha-saṃrakta-locanaḥ | vajra-kalpāṃ catuṣkiṣkuṃ gurvīṃ rukmāṅgadāṃ gadām ||

Translation

ततो भीमो महाबाहुः क्रोधसंरक्तलोचनः । वज्रकल्पां चतुष्किष्कुं गुर्वीं रुक्माङ्गदां गदाम्॥

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

भीमःBhima

महाबाहुःmighty-armed

क्रोधसंरक्तलोचनःwhose eyes were reddened with anger

वज्रकल्पाम्thunderbolt-like

चतुष्किष्कुम्of four kishkus (in measure/length)

गुर्वीम्heavy

रुक्माङ्गदाम्with golden ornaments/armlets (gold-adorned)

गदाम्mace

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

स

संजय (Sañjaya)

भ

भीम (Bhīma)

ग

गदा (mace)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how intense anger can seize even a great hero at the height of war, and how martial power (symbolized by the thunderbolt-like mace) becomes an instrument of duty and destruction. It implicitly warns that wrath amplifies violence, even when one acts within the battlefield’s code.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya narrates that Bhīma, overcome with fury, takes up his formidable, gold-adorned mace—described as thunderbolt-like and four cubits long—signaling his readiness to strike in the ongoing combat of the Droṇa Parva.