Shloka 226

अर्जुनस्य शीघ्रप्रयाणं भीम-शकुनियुद्धं च

Arjuna’s Rapid Advance and the Bhīma–Śakuni Encounter

Devanagari script

क्षुरप्रेण सुतीक्ष्णेन राजा चिच्छेद संयुगे । आर्य! फिर राजा दुर्योधनने युद्धस्थलमें एक तीखे श्षुरप्रसे धृष्टद्युम्मके बाणसहित धनुष और दस्तानेको भी काट दिया

Transliteration

saf1jaya uv
01ca |

ksuraprea sut
2bkea r
01j
01 ciccheda sayuge |

Translation

سنجے نے کہا—اے معزز! پھر میدانِ جنگ میں راجا دریودھن نے نہایت تیز دھار خُشُرپر تیر سے دھرشتدیومن کا تیر سمیت کمان اور دستانہ (ہاتھ کا حفاظتی غلاف) کاٹ ڈالا۔

Word by Word

• क्षुरप्रेण: with a razor(-like weapon/arrowhead)
• क्षुरप्रेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षुरप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• सुतीक्ष्णेन: very sharp
• सुतीक्ष्णेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुतीक्ष्ण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• राजा: the king
• राजा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चिच्छेद: cut / severed
• Type: Verb
• Root: छिद् (धातु)
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular

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

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• Duryodhana
• Kshurapra (razor-edged arrow)
• battlefield (sayuga)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights a battlefield ethic of tactical restraint and skill: disabling an opponents capacity to fight (by cutting weapons/gear) can be as decisive as killing, reflecting the harsh but rule-aware logic of kshatriya warfare.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sanjaya narrates that the king, using a very sharp razor-edged arrow, severs something in the combata vivid moment of close, technical archery in the ongoing battle.