Shloka 14

Devanagari script

दीप्यमानेन वपुषा रथेनादित्यवर्चसा । तादृशेनैव राजेन्द्र यादुशेन घटोत्कच:,राजेन्द्र! उसका शरीर देदीप्यमान हो रहा था। वह भी सूर्यके समान तेजस्वी वैसे ही रथपर आरूढ़ होकर गया, जैसे रथसे घटोत्कच आया था

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | dīpyamānena vapuṣā rathenādityavarcāsā | tādṛśenaiva rājendra yāduśena ghaṭotkacaḥ ||

Translation

सञ्जय उवाच—राजेन्द्र! तस्य वपुः दीप्तिमदभवत्। आदित्यवर्चसा रथेनारूढः स तादृशेनैव तेजसा तादृशेनैव प्रकारेण प्रावर्तत, यथा घटोत्कचो रथेनागतः।

Word by Word

दीप्यमानेनwith (a) blazing

वपुषाbody, form

रथेनby/with a chariot

आदित्यवर्चसाwith sun-like radiance

तादृशेनwith such (a one/thing)

एवindeed, just

राजेन्द्रO king of kings

यादुशेनwith which kind (as/like which)

घटोत्कचःGhaṭotkaca

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (rājendra)

Ghaṭotkaca

ratha (chariot)

Āditya (the Sun)

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 the mirroring of martial power: dazzling external splendor can be matched by an opponent, yet such brilliance does not by itself confer righteousness. In the ethical landscape of the Mahābhārata war, appearances of might are narratively striking but morally ambiguous.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a warrior advancing on a sun-bright chariot, his body blazing, and notes that his approach and splendor resemble the earlier arrival of Ghaṭotkaca on his chariot—setting a tone of escalating, comparable force on the battlefield.