Shloka 10

Chapter 89: Bhīma dispatched to protect Ghaṭotkaca amid escalating engagements

Devanagari script

तब क्रोधमें भरे हुए राजा युधिष्ठिरने कुरुवंशी महात्मा भीष्मपर विषधर सर्पके समान नाराचका प्रहार किया ।।

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | atha krodhabhṛto rājā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ kurūdvahaṃ mahātmānaṃ bhīṣmaṃ viṣadhara-sarpa-sannibhaṃ nārācaṃ prāhiṇot || asamprāptaṃ tataḥ taṃ tu kṣurapreṇa mahārathaḥ | ciccheda samare rājan bhīṣmas tasya dhanuṣyutam ||

Translation

تب غصّے سے بھرے ہوئے راجہ یُدھِشٹھِر نے کُرووَںشی مہاتما بھیشم پر زہریلے سانپ کے مانند ناراج تیر چلایا۔ مگر اے راجن! یُدھِشٹھِر کے کمان سے چھوٹا ہوا وہ تیر ابھی پہنچا بھی نہ تھا کہ مہارَتھی بھیشم نے میدانِ جنگ میں خُشُرپر تیر سے اسے کاٹ کر گرا دیا۔

Word by Word

• असत्: not (yet) reached / not attained
• असत्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: असत्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• प्राप्तम्: reached/attained
• प्राप्तम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्र-आप् (धातु) → प्राप्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• ततः: then/thereupon
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• तम्: that (one/it)
• तम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• क्षुरप्रेण: with a razor(-edged) arrow
• क्षुरप्रेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षुरप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• महारथः: the great chariot-warrior
• महारथः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महारथ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चिच्छेद: cut (asunder)
• Type: Verb
• Root: छिद्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Singular

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• भीष्मः: Bhishma
• भीष्मः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्म (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तस्य: of him/that
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• धनुः: bow
• धनुः: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धनुस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• श्युतम्: shot/loosed
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्यु (धातु) → श्युत (कृदन्त)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Bhīṣma
• Kuru lineage (Kuruvaṃśa)
• nārāca (arrow)
• kṣura/kṣurapra (razor-headed arrow)
• battlefield (samara)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even a dharma-minded person like Yudhiṣṭhira can be overtaken by krodha (anger) under the pressures of war; the episode highlights the ethical danger of wrath and the ideal of steadiness and mastery (seen in Bhīṣma’s composed, skillful response) amid violent duty.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sanjaya describes Yudhiṣṭhira, enraged, shooting a nārāca at Bhīṣma; Bhīṣma intercepts it before it reaches him, slicing it mid-course with a razor-headed arrow, demonstrating superior battlefield precision.