Shloka 44

Devanagari script

उसके मूर्च्छित हो जानेपर भीमसेनने फिर क्षुरप्रके द्वारा उसके सारथिका ही सिर धड़से अलग कर दिया ।। हतसूता हयास्तस्य रथमादाय भारत । व्यद्रवन्त दिशो राजन्‌ हाहाकारस्तदाभवत्‌,भरतवंशी नरेश! सारथिके मारे जानेपर उसके घोड़े रथ लिये चारों दिशाओंमें दौड़ लगाने लगे। उस समय आपकी सेनामें हाहाकार मच गया

Transliteration

hatāsūtā hayās tasya ratham ādāya bhārata | vyadravan diśo rājan hāhākāras tadābhavat ||

Translation

جب اس کا سارتھی مارا گیا تو رتھ میں جتے ہوئے اس کے گھوڑے رتھ سمیت چاروں سمتوں میں بدک کر دوڑ پڑے، اے بھرت ونشی راجن! اسی وقت تمہاری فوج میں بڑا ہاہاکار اور کھلبلی مچ گئی۔

Word by Word

हतसूताwhose charioteer was slain

हयाःhorses

तस्यof him / his

रथम्chariot

आदायhaving taken / carrying along

भारतO Bharata

व्यद्रवन्तran off / fled

दिशःdirections

राजन्O king

हाहाकारःa great cry / uproar

तदाthen

अभवत्arose / happened / was

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by vocatives Bhārata, Rājan)

charioteer (sūta)

horses (hayāḥ)

chariot (ratha)

Kaurava army (implied: 'your army')

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 highlights the interdependence of roles in dharmic warfare: when a crucial support figure (the charioteer) falls, control collapses and panic spreads. It points to the ethical and practical reality that violence produces cascading disorder, affecting not only combatants but the entire fighting body.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that after the charioteer is killed, the horses—still attached to the chariot—run wildly in all directions. This triggers a loud uproar and confusion in Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s forces.