Shloka 50

Devanagari script

घटोत्कचेन क्रुद्धेन गदा हेमाड़दा तदा

Transliteration

ghaṭotkacena kruddhena gadā hemāḍḍā tadā

Translation

सञ्जय उवाच—ततो घटोत्कचः क्रुद्धो हेमभूषितां गदां जग्राह।

Word by Word

• घटोत्कचेन: by Ghaṭotkaca
• घटोत्कचेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: घटोत्कच
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• क्रुद्धेन: being enraged / by the enraged (one)
• क्रुद्धेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रुद्ध (√क्रुध्)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• गदा: mace
• गदा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गदा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• हेमाङ्गदा: gold-adorned (mace)
• हेमाङ्गदा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: हेमाङ्गदा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• तदा: then
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Ghaṭotkaca
• gadā (mace)
• hema (gold)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how anger (krodha) rapidly manifests as destructive action in war. Ethically, it points to the peril of letting wrath govern one’s choices, since it fuels escalation and suffering even when the setting is a ‘duty-bound’ battlefield.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Ghaṭotkaca, provoked and furious, takes up (or is described as wielding) a gold-adorned mace, signaling an imminent, forceful attack and a rise in the intensity of the combat.