Shloka 38

Devanagari script

वसुदानश्च कदनं कुर्वाणो$तीव संयुगे | भारद्वाजेन विक्रम्य गमितो यमसादनम्‌,वसुदान भी युद्धस्थलमें बड़ा भारी संहार मचा रहा था। परंतु भरद्वाजनन्दन द्रोणने पराक्रम करके उसे यमलोक पहुँचा दिया

Transliteration

vasudānaś ca kadanaṃ kurvāṇo ’tīva saṃyuge | bhāradvājena vikramya gamito yamasādanam ||

Translation

สัญชัยกล่าวว่า—ท่ามกลางศึกอันดุเดือด วสุทานะก่อการสังหารอย่างร้ายกาจ; แต่บุตรแห่งภารทวาชะสำแดงวีรกรรมเข้าปราบ และส่งเขาไปสู่สำนักแห่งยมะ

Word by Word

वसुदानःVasudāna (a warrior named Vasudāna)

चand

कदनम्slaughter, destruction

कुर्वाणःdoing, making

अतीवexceedingly, very

संयुगेin battle

भारद्वाजेनby Bhāradvāja’s (son) (i.e., Droṇa)

विक्रम्यhaving advanced/acted with prowess

गमितःwas sent/caused to go

यमसादनम्Yama’s abode (realm of death)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vasudāna

Bhāradvāja’s son (Droṇa)

Yama

Yamasādana (abode of Yama)

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?

Even in war, where violence surges, outcomes are governed by a larger moral and causal order: the one who spreads destruction can be swiftly checked by a superior force acting within the warrior code, and death equalizes all battlefield pride.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that Vasudāna was causing great carnage in the battle, but Droṇa (identified as Bhāradvāja’s son) confronted him with valor and killed him—poetically described as sending him to Yama’s abode.