Shloka 1086

गौरुडव्यूह-रचना तथा अर्धचन्द्र-प्रत्यव्यूह

Garuḍa Array and the Ardhacandra Counter-Formation

Devanagari script

आजलपश्ने भरतश्रेष्स्त्रिभि: संनतपर्वभि: । उस समरभूमिमें आपके पिता भरतश्रेष्ठ भीष्मने झुकी हुई गाँठवाले तीन बाणोंसे अभिमन्युको चोट पहुँचायी

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | asmin samara-bhūmau tava pitā bharataśreṣṭho bhīṣmaḥ tribhiḥ sannata-parvabhiḥ bāṇaiḥ abhimanyum ājaghāna |

Translation

Sañjaya nói: Trên chiến địa ấy, phụ vương của ngài—Bhīṣma, bậc tối thượng trong dòng Bharata—đã bắn trúng Abhimanyu bằng ba mũi tên có các khớp cong. Lời thuật lại nhấn mạnh kỷ luật lạnh lùng của chiến tranh: ngay cả bậc trưởng lão đáng kính, vì trung thành và bổn phận kṣatriya, cũng gây thương tích cho người trẻ trong dòng chảy không ngừng của trận mạc.

Word by Word

• अञ्जलपाशेन: with the añjalapāśa (a kind of weapon/arrow)
• अञ्जलपाशेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अञ्जलपाश
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• भरतश्रेष्ठः: the best of the Bharatas
• भरतश्रेष्ठः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरतश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• त्रिभिः: with three
• त्रिभिः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रि
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• संनतपर्वभिः: having bent joints/knots (i.e., barbed/knotted)
• संनतपर्वभिः: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: संनतपर्वन्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Bhīṣma
• Abhimanyu
• battlefield (samara-bhūmi)
• three arrows (trayaḥ bāṇāḥ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the harsh tension between personal affection and role-based duty in war: even an elder of great stature acts according to allegiance and kṣatriya obligation, showing how dharma in conflict can demand painful, ethically weighty actions.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Bhīṣma, fighting for the Kauravas, wounds Abhimanyu on the battlefield by striking him with three bent-jointed arrows.