Shloka 146

Devanagari script

जहार समरे प्राणान्‌ भीमो भीमपराक्रम: । तब भयानक पराक्रमसे सम्पन्न भीमसेनने उस महायुद्धमें दूसरे दो भल्लोंद्वारा रणभूमिमें आपके दो पुत्रोंके प्राण हर लिये

Transliteration

jahāra samare prāṇān bhīmo bhīmaparākramaḥ |

Translation

जहार समरे प्राणान् भीमो भीमपराक्रमः। भल्लद्वयेन रणभूमौ तव पुत्रौ न्यपातयत्॥

Word by Word

• जहार: took away, carried off
• Type: Verb
• Root: हृ (हर्)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्षभूत), 3, singular, परस्मैपद

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

• प्राणान्: lives, vital breaths
• प्राणान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• भीमः: Bhima
• भीमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीम
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• भीम-पराक्रमः: of terrible valor
• भीम-पराक्रमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भीमपराक्रम
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhīma (Bhīmasena)
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by 'your sons')
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra's sons (Kauravas, unspecified two)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the harsh moral reality of war: even celebrated valor manifests as the taking of life. It reflects kṣatriya-duty in battle while simultaneously emphasizing the tragic cost—victory and prowess are inseparable from grief and irreversible consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Bhīma, displaying fearsome prowess, kills two of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons on the battlefield, striking them down decisively in the ongoing great war.