Shloka 67

Devanagari script

व्याकुलीकृतमत्यर्थ पश्य सैन्यं किरीटिना । नानामृगसहस्राणां यूथं केसरिणा यथा,“देखो, किरीटधारी अर्जुनने कौरव-सेनाको उसी प्रकार अत्यन्त व्याकुल कर दिया है, जैसे सिंह नाना जातिके सहस्रों मृगोंको भयभीत कर देता है

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | vyākulīkṛtam atyarthaṃ paśya sainyaṃ kirīṭinā | nānāmṛga-sahasrāṇāṃ yūthaṃ kesariṇā yathā ||

Translation

Wika ni Sañjaya: “Masdan kung paanong ang hukbo’y lubhang naguluhan dahil kay Arjuna na may diadema—gaya ng leon na nagpapangamba at nagpapangalat sa kawan ng libu-libong usa na sari-saring uri.”

Word by Word

व्याकुलीकृतम्made agitated/disturbed

अत्यर्थम्excessively, greatly

पश्यsee, behold

सैन्यम्army

किरीटिनाby the diadem-wearer (Arjuna)

नानाvarious, of many kinds

मृगof deer/animals

सहस्राणाम्of thousands

यूथम्herd, flock

केसरिणाby a lion

यथाas, just as

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Arjuna (Kirīṭin)

Kaurava army (sainyam)

Lion (kesarin)

Herd of deer/wild animals (mṛga-yūtha)

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 how disciplined valor and strategic force can dissolve an opposing host’s cohesion; ethically, it points to the battlefield reality that fear and disorder often overtake armies when confronted by a superior, steadfast champion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Arjuna has severely unsettled the Kaurava forces, comparing their panic to a herd of many thousands of deer scattering before a lion.