Shloka 10

Bhīṣma’s Recollection of the Duel: Charioteer’s Fall, Brahmin Protection, and Portents after Rāma’s Collapse

Devanagari script

स संरब्ध: समावृत्य शरं कालान्तकोपमम्‌ | संदधे बलवत्‌ कृष्य घोर शत्रुनिबर्हणम्‌,तब उन्होंने भी रोषमें आकर काल और यमके समान भयंकर शत्रुनाशक बाणको हाथमें ले धनुषको बलपूर्वक खींचकर उसके ऊपर रखा

Transliteration

sa saṃrabdhaḥ samāvṛtya śaraṃ kālāntakopamam | saṃdadhe balavat kṛṣya ghora-śatru-nibarhaṇam ||

Translation

تب وہ بھی غضب میں بھر آیا؛ اس نے قیامت کے آخر کی موت کی مانند ہولناک، دشمن کُش تیر اٹھایا اور کمان کو پوری قوت سے کھینچ کر اس مہیب تیر کو چڑھا لیا۔

Word by Word

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• संरब्धः: enraged, provoked
• संरब्धः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: संरब्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• समावृत्य: having taken/covered (i.e., having grasped/handled)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-वृत्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund), Parasmaipada (usage)

• शरम्: arrow
• शरम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• कालान्तक-उपमम्: like Death (Yama), death-like
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कालान्तक + उपम
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• संदधे: he fixed/placed (on the bow)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-धा
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• बलवत्: forcefully, with strength
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बलवत्

• कृष्य: having drawn (the bowstring)
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृष्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund), Parasmaipada (usage)

• घोरम्: terrible, dreadful
• Type: Adjective
• Root: घोर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• शत्रु-निबर्हणम्: destroyer of enemies
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शत्रु + निबर्हण
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• arrow (śara)
• bow (implied by drawing and fitting the arrow)
• Kāla (Time/Death, as a simile)
• Antaka/Yama (Death, as a simile)