Shloka 336

Devanagari script

पारिजातवनानीव व्यरोचन्‌ रुधिरो क्षिता: । तदनन्तर वहाँ खूनसे लथपथ हुए हाथी, घोड़े, रथी और पैदल सैनिक पारिजातके जंगलोंके समान सुशोभित होने लगे

Transliteration

pārijātavanānīva vyarocan rudhiro kṣitāḥ |

Translation

तदनन्तरं रुधिरार्द्राः क्षितौ गजाश्वारथिपत्तयः पारिजातवनानीव व्यरोचन्।

Word by Word

• पारिजातवनानि: parijāta-groves/forests
• पारिजातवनानि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पारिजातवन
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• इव: like/as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• व्यरोचन्: shone/appeared splendid
• Type: Verb
• Root: रुच्
• Form: Imperfect (Lan), 3rd, Plural, Parasmaipada

• रुधिरा: bloody/blood-stained
• रुधिरा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुधिर
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• क्षितिः: the earth/ground
• क्षितिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षिति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• pārijāta (celestial tree)
• battlefield (kṣiti/bhūmi implied)
• elephants (gaja)
• horses (aśva)
• charioteers/chariot-warriors (rathin)
• foot-soldiers (pādāta)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical dissonance of war: the mind can perceive a terrible ‘beauty’ in mass violence through poetic comparison, but that very comparison underscores how dharma is strained when slaughter becomes the dominant reality.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes the aftermath of intense fighting: the battlefield is filled with blood-drenched combatants and war-animals, and their appearance is compared—grimly and ironically—to pārijāta groves, emphasizing the scale of carnage.