Shloka 693

Devanagari script

उद्वृत्तानां यथा वृष्टया सागराणां भयावह: । प्रजानाथ! उस समय उनके आनेसे बड़ा भारी कोलाहल होने लगा, मानो वर्षसे बढ़े हुए समुद्रोंकी भयानक गर्जना हो रही हो

Transliteration

udvṛttānāṃ yathā vṛṣṭyā sāgarāṇāṃ bhayāvahaḥ | prajānātha! tadā teṣām āgamane mahān kolāhalo 'bhavat, varṣeṇa vardhitānāṃ sāgarāṇāṃ bhīṣaṇā garjanā iva ||

Translation

สัญชัยกล่าวว่า— ข้าแต่เจ้าแห่งปวงชน! ครั้นพวกเขามาถึง ก็เกิดโกลาหลใหญ่ น่าสะพรึงดุจเสียงคำรามของมหาสมุทรที่พองตัวด้วยสายฝน

Word by Word

• उद्वृत्तानाम्: of the swollen/raised (ones)
• उद्वृत्तानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उद्वृत्त (उद्+वृत्, कृदन्त-विशेषण)
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• यथा: as/just as
• यथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• वृष्ट्या: by rain
• वृष्ट्या: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृष्टि
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular

• सागराणाम्: of the oceans
• सागराणाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सागर
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• भयावहः: terrifying
• भयावहः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भयावह
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रजानाथ: O lord of the people
• प्रजानाथ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजानाथ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• prajānātha (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• oceans (sāgarāḥ)
• rains (vṛṣṭi)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how collective violence and martial momentum can swell beyond control—like rain-fed oceans—creating fear and drowning out discernment; it implicitly warns that unchecked conflict becomes an impersonal, overwhelming force.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to the king that, at the moment of the warriors’ arrival/advance, a massive clamor erupted on the battlefield, compared to the dreadful roaring of oceans swollen by monsoon rains.