Shloka 186

इन्द्रस्य पाण्डवैः समागमः

Indra’s Meeting with the Pāṇḍavas

Devanagari script

एकेन सहिता: सड्ख्ये रणे क्रोधवशा गणा: । 'धनेश्वर! एक मनुष्यने बलपूर्वक इस पर्वतको रौंद डाला है और युद्धमें क्रोधवश नामक राक्षसगणोंको मार भगाया है

Transliteration

ekena sahitāḥ saṅkhye raṇe krodhavaśā gaṇāḥ |

Translation

ท่ามกลางสมรภูมิ หมู่เหล่าผู้ถูกโทสะครอบงำยืนรวมกันเป็นหนึ่ง แล้วกราบทูลแด่ธเนศวรว่า “มีมนุษย์เพียงผู้เดียวใช้กำลังเหยียบย่ำค่ายภูผานี้ และได้ตีพวกยักษ์รากษสผู้คลุ้มคลั่งด้วยความโกรธให้แตกพ่าย กระจัดกระจายไป”

Word by Word

• एकेन: by one (person)
• एकेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• सहिता: united, together
• सहिता: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सङ्ख्ये: in battle, in combat
• सङ्ख्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सङ्ख्य
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• रणे: in war
• रणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: रण
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• क्रोधवशाः: under the sway of anger
• क्रोधवशाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रोधवश
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• गणाः: groups, troops
• गणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Dhan-eśvara (epithet; likely Kubera, by context)
• a single man (unnamed in the given excerpt)
• rākṣasa-gaṇas (bands of rākṣasas)
• mountain (parvata)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Anger (krodha) clouds judgment and weakens even organized forces; disciplined strength and resolve can overcome larger, wrath-driven groups. The ethical contrast is between uncontrolled passion and controlled power.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates a battlefield report: although the rākṣasa bands fought together under the sway of anger, a single man has forcefully overrun their mountain position and driven them away after defeating them.