Shloka 166

अध्याय ७५ — दैव-पुरुषकार-समन्वयः

Reconciling Contingency and Human Effort

Devanagari script

द्रष्टा मां त्वं च लोकश्न विकर्षन्तं वरान्‌ वरान्‌ जब (घमासान युद्धमें) मैं कुपित होकर मतवाले हाथियों

Transliteration

draṣṭā māṃ tvaṃ ca loka-jña vikarṣantaṃ varān varān; yuddhe krodha-samāviṣṭo mattān gajān rathinaś ca hayārohāṃś ca pātayiṣyāmi prakṣepsyāmi ca; anyāṃś ca śreṣṭhān kṣatriya-vīrān nihaniṣyāmi; tadā tvaṃ ca pare lokāś ca māṃ drakṣyatha yathāhaṃ pradhāna-pradhānān vīrān vicitya vicitya saṃharāmi.

Translation

اے لوک شناس! جب گھمسان کے معرکے میں میں غضبناک ہو کر مست ہاتھیوں، رتھیوں اور گھڑ سواروں کو پٹخنا اور دور پھینکنا شروع کروں گا، اور دوسرے برگزیدہ کشتریہ سورماؤں کے قتل میں لگ جاؤں گا—تب آپ اور دوسرے لوگ بھی مجھے دیکھیں گے کہ میں کس طرح چن چن کر بڑے بڑے پہلوانوں کا قلع قمع کرتا ہوں۔

Word by Word

• द्रष्टा: seer; one who will see
• द्रष्टा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दृश् (धातु) → द्रष्टृ (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• माम्: me
• माम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• लोकाः: people
• लोकाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• विकर्षन्तम्: dragging; pulling
• विकर्षन्तम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + कृश्/कर्ष् (धातु) → विकर्षत् (शतृ-कृदन्त)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• वरान्: excellent; best
• वरान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• वरान्: excellent; best (repeated for emphasis)
• वरान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīmasena
• war-elephants (gaja)
• chariot-warriors (rathin)
• horsemen (hayāroha)
• kṣatriya heroes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds kṣatriya-dharma as martial duty: Bhīma frames his coming violence as deliberate, targeted destruction of leading enemy champions. Ethically, it highlights the tension between righteous duty in war and the dangerous momentum of anger (krodha) that can intensify violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīma declares that, once battle begins, he will in wrath bring down elephants, chariot-fighters, and cavalry, and will systematically pick out and kill the foremost kṣatriya heroes—so that the addressed ‘knower of the world’ and others will witness his selective slaughter of principal warriors.