Mahabharata 7.159.35 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 159, Shloka 35

अध्याय १५९ — रात्रौ श्रमविरामः

Night Exhaustion and Brief Pause in Battle

Devanagari script

क्षिप्तानि क्षिप्यमाणानि तानि चास्त्राणि धर्मज:

Transliteration

kṣiptāni kṣipyamāṇāni tāni cāstrāṇi dharmajaḥ

Translation

విసిరినవీ, విసురుతున్నవీ అయిన ఆ అస్త్రాలను ధర్మజుడైన యుధిష్ఠిరుడు యుద్ధఘర్షణ మధ్య ఎదుర్కొన్నాడు।

Word by Word

• क्षिप्तानि: thrown, hurled
• क्षिप्तानि: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्षिप्त (√क्षिप्)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• क्षिप्यमाणानि: being thrown
• क्षिप्यमाणानि: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्षिप्यमाण (√क्षिप्)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• तानि: those
• तानि: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• अस्त्राणि: weapons, missiles
• अस्त्राणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्त्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• धर्मजः: Dharma-born (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• धर्मजः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्मज
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dharmaja (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• astrāṇi (weapons/missiles)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even Dharmaja—renowned for righteousness—must engage the realities of war; the verse highlights the tension between dharma as moral ideal and dharma as kṣatriya-duty in a battlefield where weapons fly without pause.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes an intense exchange of missiles: weapons already launched and those still being launched, with Dharmaja (Yudhiṣṭhira) positioned as the one confronting or responding to that ongoing barrage.