Shloka 27

Devanagari script

पश्यतां वो महाबाहो सेनां द्रावयति प्रभो । त॑ वारय महाबाहो वेलेव मकरालयम्‌

Transliteration

paśyatāṃ vo mahābāho senāṃ drāvayati prabho | taṃ vārayā mahābāho veleva makarālayam ||

Translation

Wika ni Sañjaya: “O makapangyarihang bisig, panginoon, sa harap mismo ng inyong mga mata ay pinatatakbo niya ang hukbo. Pigilan mo siya, O makapangyarihang bisig—gaya ng dalampasigan na pumipigil sa karagatan, tahanan ng mga makara.”

Word by Word

पश्यताम्of (you) who are watching / in the presence of onlookers

वःof you / your

महाबाहोO mighty-armed one

सेनाम्army

द्रावयतिdrives away / routs

प्रभोO lord

तम्him

वारयrestrain / stop

महाबाहोO mighty-armed one

वेलेवlike a shore/limit (as if)

मकरालयम्the ocean (abode of makaras)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

senā (army)

makarālayam (the ocean/sea)

velā (shoreline)

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 stresses a ruler/warrior’s responsibility to act decisively when disorder spreads: leadership is shown by restraining destructive force and protecting the collective, just as a boundary (the shore) contains the sea.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya urgently reports that a formidable fighter is driving the army into flight right before their eyes, and he exhorts the addressed hero/leader to check and contain that onslaught, using the image of the shoreline holding back the ocean.