Shloka 6

भीष्मस्य दुर्योधनं प्रति उपालम्भः

Bhīṣma’s Reproof to Duryodhana

Devanagari script

नर्दित्वा सुमहानादं निर्घातमिव राक्षस:

Transliteration

narditvā sumahānādaṃ nirghātam iva rākṣasaḥ

Translation

سنجے نے کہا—اس راکشس صفت جنگجو نے نہایت عظیم دہاڑ ماری، گویا کسی ہولناک ضرب کی گرج ہو، اور (سب پر) دہشت طاری کر دی۔

Word by Word

• नर्दित्वा: having roared
• नर्दित्वा: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: नर्द् (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा (अव्ययभाव/ल्यप्), कर्तरि, absolutive (having done), no person/number

• सुमहानादम्: a very great sound/roar
• सुमहानादम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुमहानाद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• निर्घातम्: a crash, a thunderclap
• निर्घातम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: निर्घात (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• राक्षसः: the demon (rakshasa)
• राक्षसः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: राक्षस (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• राक्षस (rākṣasa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how, in war, terror and intimidation can be deliberately employed as instruments of power. By comparing the roar to a rākṣasa and to a thunderous crash, the narrative implicitly contrasts human restraint with demonic ferocity, reminding the listener that ethical self-control is most endangered when violence becomes exhilarating.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a combatant (or force) roaring loudly on the battlefield. The sound is portrayed as immense and thunder-like, and the comparison to a rākṣasa conveys the frightening, overwhelming atmosphere as the clash intensifies.