Shloka 12

Devanagari script

भूयश्वान्यत्‌ समादाय दिव्यमाज्डिरसं धनु: । शरांश्व ब्रह्म॒दण्डाभान्‌ धृष्टद्युम्नमयोधयत्‌,इसके बाद द्रोणाचार्यने पुन: आंगिरस नामक दिव्य धनुष तथा ब्रह्मदण्डके समान बाण हाथमें लेकर धृष्टद्युम्नके साथ युद्ध आरम्भ कर दिया

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | bhūyaś cānyat samādāya divyam āṅgirasaṃ dhanuḥ | śarāṃś ca brahmadaṇḍābhān dhṛṣṭadyumnam ayodhayat ||

Translation

సంజయుడు అన్నాడు—ఆపై ద్రోణుడు మళ్లీ ‘ఆంగిరస’ అనే దివ్యధనుస్సును ఎత్తుకొని, బ్రహ్మదండంలా భయంకరమైన బాణాలను పట్టుకొని ధృష్టద్యుమ్నునితో యుద్ధం ప్రారంభించాడు.

Word by Word

भूयःagain, once more

वाand/also (particle)

अन्यत्another (thing)

समादायhaving taken up

दिव्यम्divine

आङ्गिरसम्of Aṅgiras (named Āṅgirasa)

धनुःbow

शरान्arrows

चand

ब्रह्मदण्डाभान्resembling Brahma's staff

धृष्टद्युम्नम्Dhṛṣṭadyumna

अयोधयत्made (him) fight; fought (with)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Droṇa (Droṇācārya)

Dhṛṣṭadyumna

Āṅgirasa bow (divine bow)

Arrows likened to Brahmā’s staff (brahmadaṇḍa)

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

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the relentless momentum of battlefield duty: a warrior repeatedly draws upon skill and superior weapons to meet an opponent. Ethically, it reflects the Mahābhārata’s tension between personal destiny (Droṇa and Dhṛṣṭadyumna’s fated enmity) and the impersonal demands of kṣatriya warfare.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Droṇa, intensifying the fight, takes up a divine bow called Āṅgirasa and terrifying arrows compared to Brahmā’s staff, and then directly engages Dhṛṣṭadyumna in renewed combat.