Shloka 41

Śiva’s Battlefield Manifestation and Vyāsa’s Śatarudrīya Exposition (शिवप्रादुर्भावः शतरुद्रीयव्याख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

अनिलेन यथाभ्राणि विच्छिन्नानि समन्तत:

Transliteration

anilena yathābhrāṇi vicchinnāni samantataḥ

Translation

अनिलेन यथाभ्राणि विच्छिन्नानि समन्ततः, तथा ते समरे सैन्याः सर्वतः प्रकीर्णा अभवन्।

Word by Word

• अनिलेन: by the wind
• अनिलेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनिल
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• यथा: as, just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• अभ्राणि: clouds
• अभ्राणि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभ्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• विच्छिन्नानि: scattered, broken apart
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि-छिद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural, Past passive participle (क्त), Passive (participial)

• समन्ततः: on all sides, everywhere
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: समन्ततः

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• wind (anila)
• clouds (abhra)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The simile highlights impermanence and vulnerability: in war, power and order can be dispersed as easily as clouds by wind, reminding the listener of the instability of worldly arrangements and the ethical gravity of violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a scene of dispersal and fragmentation—likely of troops, formations, or combatants—using the image of clouds driven apart by wind to convey sudden, widespread scattering.