Karna Parva Adhyaya 70 Shloka 20 - Mahabharata | Tagalog | Vedapath

Vyasa

Shloka 20

Devanagari script

हता उदीच्या निहता: प्रतीच्या नष्टा: प्राच्या दाक्षिणात्या विशस्ता: | कृतं कर्माप्रतिरूपं महद्वि- स्तेषां योधैरस्मदीयैश्न युद्धे

Transliteration

hatā udīcyā nihatāḥ pratīcyā naṣṭāḥ prācyā dākṣiṇātyā viśastāḥ | kṛtaṃ karmāpratirūpaṃ mahad viṣṭeṣāṃ yodhair asmadīyaiś ca yuddhe ||

Translation

Wika ni Arjuna: “Napatay ang mga bayani sa hilaga; nalipol ang mga mandirigma sa kanluran; naglaho ang mga kṣatriya sa silangan; at pinagpira-piraso ang mga manlalaban sa timog. Sa digmaang ito, kapwa ang mga kampeon ng kaaway at ang aming mga dakilang mandirigma ay nakagawa ng isang napakalaking gawang-kagitingan na walang kapantay.”

Word by Word

हताःslain

उदीच्याःthe northerners

निहताःkilled, struck down

प्रतीच्याःthe westerners

नष्टाःdestroyed, perished

प्राच्याःthe easterners

दाक्षिणात्याःthe southerners

विशस्ताःcut down, slaughtered

कृतम्done, performed

कर्मdeed, act

अप्रतिरूपम्unmatched, incomparable

महत्great

तत्that

एषाम्of these (men)

योधैःby warriors

अस्मदीयैःby our (side's)

चand

युद्धेin battle

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Arjuna

northern region (udīcya)

western region (pratīcya)

eastern region (prācya)

southern region (dākṣiṇātya)

war/battle (yuddha)

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 underscores the vast, indiscriminate devastation of war across all quarters and acknowledges extraordinary martial prowess on both sides, implicitly raising the ethical weight of kṣatriya action: even ‘incomparable’ heroism is inseparable from immense loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

Arjuna is describing the battlefield outcome: warriors from every direction—north, west, east, and south—have been slain. He remarks that both the enemy’s and the Pandavas’ great fighters have displayed unmatched valor in the ongoing conflict.