Shloka 46

अध्याय २२ — अमर्याद-युद्धवर्णन

Unrestrained Battle Description and Śakuni’s Rear Assault

Devanagari script

मुहूर्तादिव संवृत्तं नीरजस्क॑ समन्ततः । वीरशोणितसिक्तायां भूमौ भरतसत्तम,भरतश्रेष्ठ! तदनन्तर दो ही घड़ीमें वीरोंके रक्तसे धरती सिंच उठी और सब ओरकी धूल बैठ जानेके कारण रणक्षेत्र निर्मल हो गया

Transliteration

muhūrtādiva saṃvṛttaṃ nīrajaskaṃ samantataḥ | vīraśoṇitasiktāyāṃ bhūmau bharatasattama ||

Translation

เพียงชั่วครู่เดียว ฝุ่นธุลีรอบด้านก็ดับสงบลง สนามรบประหนึ่งแปรเป็นไร้ฝุ่นโดยทั่วกัน โอผู้ประเสริฐแห่งวงศ์ภารตะ แผ่นดินชุ่มโชกด้วยโลหิตของวีรชน

Word by Word

मुहूर्तात्from a moment (after a short time)

इवas if / like

संवृत्तम्became / came to be

नीरजस्कम्dustless / free of dust

समन्ततःon all sides / everywhere

वीरशोणितसिक्तायाम्on (the ground) drenched with heroes' blood

भूमौon the earth / on the ground

भरतसत्तमO best of the Bharatas

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bharata-sattama (address to Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

battlefield (bhūmi)

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 ethical gravity of war: even when framed as kṣatriya-dharma, the battlefield’s ‘clarity’ comes through bloodshed, reminding the listener that victory and duty are inseparable from human loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that within a short time the dust of battle settled everywhere because the ground was soaked with the blood of fallen warriors, making the field appear dustless and stark.