Shloka 52

Devanagari script

अद्यानृण्यं गमिष्यामि हत्वा कर्ण महाहवे । “माधव! आज महासमरमें कर्णका वध करके मैं धृष्टद्युम्न, शिखण्डी तथा पांचालोंके ऋणसे छुटकारा पा जाऊँगा ।। अद्य पश्यन्तु संग्रामे धनंजयममर्षणम्‌

Transliteration

adyānṛṇyaṃ gamiṣyāmi hatvā karṇa mahāhave | adya paśyantu saṃgrāme dhanañjayam amarṣaṇam ||

Translation

สัญชัยกล่าวว่า “โอ้มาธวะ วันนี้เราจักปลดเปลื้องหนี้แห่งพันธะ ด้วยการสังหารกรรณะในมหาสงคราม วันนี้ในสนามรบ จงให้พวกเขาได้เห็นธนัญชัย (อรชุน) ผู้ไม่ยอมทนต่อการดูหมิ่น”

Word by Word

अद्यtoday/now

आनृण्यम्freedom from debt/obligation

गमिष्यामिI shall attain/go (to)

हत्वाhaving slain

कर्णम्Karna

महाहवेin the great battle

अद्यtoday/now

पश्यन्तुlet them see

संग्रामेin battle

धनंजयम्Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

अमर्षणम्unenduring/irascible (one who cannot bear affront)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Karna

Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)

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 presents a warrior-ethic where obligations to allies and to a righteous cause are conceived as a ‘debt’ that must be discharged; in the epic’s moral world, fulfilling one’s pledged duty (even through violent means in war) is portrayed as restoring ethical balance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a declaration of intent: the speaker (contextually Arjuna) vows that on this very day he will kill Karṇa in the great battle, and that others will witness Dhanañjaya’s fierce, unyielding prowess on the battlefield.