Shloka 37
अध्याय ९ — दुर्योधनस्य अन्त्यावस्था, विलापः, तथा सौप्तिक-प्रतिवृत्तम्
Duryodhana’s Final Condition, Lamentation, and the Night’s Report
Devanagari script
तव प्रसादादस्माभि: समित्रै: सह बान्धवै:
Transliteration
tava prasādād asmābhiḥ samitraiḥ saha bāndhavaiḥ
Translation
तव प्रसादादस्माभिः समित्रैः सह बान्धवैः।
Word by Word
तवof you/your
तव:
सम्बन्ध
TypePronoun
Rootत्वद्
Formany, षष्ठी, एकवचन
प्रसादात्from (your) favor/grace
प्रसादात्:
अपादान
TypeNoun
Rootप्रसाद
Formपुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी, एकवचन
अस्माभिःby us
अस्माभिः:
कर्ता
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
Formany, तृतीया, बहुवचन
समित्रैःwith friends/allies
समित्रैः:
सहकारक (सह)
TypeNoun
Rootसमित्र
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन
सहtogether with
सह:
सहकारक (सह)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसह
बान्धवैःwith kinsmen/relatives
बान्धवैः:
सहकारक (सह)
TypeNoun
Rootबान्धव
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन
Speaker
संजय उवाच
Characters & Entities
S
SanjayaY
you (addressee; implied listener)Character Dynamics
Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
War Context
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Geographic Context
Meter (Chandas)
Sandhi Notes
Educational Q&A
The line foregrounds gratitude and accountability: outcomes in political and wartime contexts are often framed as arising from a leader’s favor, and the speaker underscores that friends and relatives share in both benefits and consequences.
Sanjaya, narrating events, speaks to his addressee and credits him with enabling ‘us’—along with allies and kinsmen—indicating a collective situation shaped by the addressee’s support amid the Sauptika Parva’s grim wartime aftermath.