Shloka 41

Devanagari script

ससागरवना घोरा पृथिवी सचराचरा

Transliteration

sasāgaravanā ghorā pṛthivī sacarācarā

Translation

சஞ்சயன் கூறினான்—கடல்களும் காடுகளும் உடன், அசையும் அசையாத அனைத்தும் சேர்ந்த அந்தப் பயங்கரப் பூமி அச்சத்தில் நடுங்கியது போலத் தோன்றியது.

Word by Word

• ससागरवना: having seas and forests
• ससागरवना: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ससागरवन
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• घोरा: terrible, dreadful
• घोरा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: घोर
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• पृथिवी: the earth
• पृथिवी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• सचराचरा: with the moving and the unmoving (all beings)
• सचराचरा: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सचराचर
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pṛthivī (Earth)
• Sāgara (oceans)
• Vana (forests)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames war’s brutality as not merely human conflict but a disturbance of the moral and cosmic order: when adharma intensifies, even nature is portrayed as recoiling, reminding listeners that violence carries consequences beyond the battlefield.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, reporting events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, describes a terrifying moment in which the whole earth—oceans, forests, and all beings—appears shaken, functioning as an ominous sign amid the climactic devastation of the Kurukṣetra war.