Shloka 36

अध्याय २२ — अमर्याद-युद्धवर्णन

Unrestrained Battle Description and Śakuni’s Rear Assault

Devanagari script

तस्य तैरभवद्‌ युद्धमिन्द्रियेरिव देहिन:

Transliteration

tasya tair abhavad yuddham indriyair iva dehinaḥ

Translation

Sañjaya nói: Với chàng, trận chiến bùng lên cùng họ tựa như cuộc giằng co của một hữu tình với các căn—một cuộc tranh đấu nội tâm, nơi sự tự chế, nhẫn nại và quyết tâm bị thử thách giữa cơn xung đột bên ngoài.

Word by Word

• तस्य: of him / his
• तस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• तैः: by them / with them
• तैः: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• अभवत्: was / happened / arose
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular

• युद्धम्: battle, fight
• युद्धम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: युद्ध
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• इन्द्रियैः: with the senses
• इन्द्रियैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्रिय
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• देहिनः: of the embodied one (the person)
• देहिनः: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: देहिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)
• इन्द्रिय (the senses)
• देहिन् (the embodied being)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames external warfare as analogous to the inner moral-psychological struggle: just as the senses can overpower the embodied self, opponents can press and destabilize a warrior. The ethical emphasis is on mastery—steadiness, restraint, and disciplined agency amid pressure.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a combat encounter in which a particular warrior’s fight with his adversaries becomes intense and consuming, and he characterizes it through a simile: it resembles the continual contest between a person and the pull of the senses.