Shloka 52
Devanagari script
वज्सारमयं नूनं हृदयं सुदृढे मम
Transliteration
vajrasāramayaṃ nūnaṃ hṛdayaṃ sudṛḍhe mama
Translation
वज्रसारमयं नूनं हृदयं सुदृढं मम; यदहं भीषणान्येतान् युद्धवृत्तान्तान् सहामि पुनश्च कथयामि।
Word by Word
वज्रसारमयम्made of adamantine essence; diamond-hard
वज्रसारमयम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootवज्रसारमय
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
नूनम्surely, indeed
नूनम्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootनूनम्
हृदयम्heart
हृदयम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootहृदय
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
सुदृढेin/with (something) very firm; very strong
सुदृढे:
Adhikarana
TypeAdjective
Rootसुदृढ
FormNeuter, Locative, Singular
ममof me; my
मम:
Sambandha
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
Form—, Genitive, Singular
Speaker
संजय उवाच
Characters & Entities
S
SañjayaCharacter 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
The line highlights the moral-psychological cost of war: even a truthful witness and narrator must cultivate extreme inner hardness to endure the sight and retelling of mass suffering. It implicitly critiques the dehumanizing pressure that prolonged violence places on the heart.
In Drona Parva, Sañjaya continues reporting the battlefield events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Overwhelmed by the horrors he has seen and must describe, he remarks that his heart seems ‘adamantine’ to remain steady while witnessing and narrating such devastation.