Mahabharata 7.183.8 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 183, Shloka 8

Devanagari script

जरासंधो हि रुषितो रौहिणेयप्रधर्षित: । अस्मद्वधार्थ चिक्षेप गदां वै सर्वधातिनीम्‌

Transliteration

jarāsaṃdho hi ruṣito rauhiṇeyapradarṣitaḥ | asmad-vadhārthaṃ cikṣepa gadāṃ vai sarvadhātinīm ||

Translation

ایک بار رَوہِنیے (بلرام) نے جنگ میں جراسندھ کو زیر کر کے رسوا کیا تھا۔ اس پر غضبناک ہو کر جراسندھ نے ہماری ہلاکت کے لیے اپنی ہمہ ہلاک کرنے والی گدا پھینکی۔

Word by Word

• जरासंधः: Jarasandha
• जरासंधः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जरासंध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• रुषितः: angered
• रुषितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुषित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• रौहिणेय-प्रधर्षितः: overpowered/assailed by Rauhiṇeya (Balarama)
• रौहिणेय-प्रधर्षितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रौहिणेयप्रधर्षित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अस्मद्-वध-अर्थम्: for the purpose of killing us
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्वधार्थ
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• चिक्षेप: he hurled/threw
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्षिप्
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• गदाम्: mace
• गदाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गदा
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• वै: indeed/assuredly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै

• सर्वधातिनीम्: all-destroying
• सर्वधातिनीम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वधातिनी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

श्रीवायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu (Vāyudeva)
• Jarāsandha
• Rauhiṇeya (Balarāma)
• gadā (mace)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how humiliation and anger can escalate into indiscriminate violence: Jarāsandha’s wounded pride turns into a resolve to kill, symbolized by the ‘all-destroying’ mace. Ethically, it warns that unchecked wrath (krodha) leads to destructive, adharma-leaning action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu recounts an earlier incident: after Balarāma (Rauhiṇeya) defeats and humiliates Jarāsandha in battle, Jarāsandha, furious, throws his deadly mace with the intention of killing ‘us’ (the group aligned with the speaker’s side).