Shloka 7

Devanagari script

येअस्मान्‌ पुरोपनृत्यन्त मूढा गौरिति गौरिति

Transliteration

ye asmān puropanṛtyanta mūḍhā gaur iti gaur iti

Translation

Sañjaya nói: “Những kẻ ngu kia, từng nhảy múa trước mặt chúng ta, hết lần này đến lần khác gào lên: ‘Bò! Bò!’”

Word by Word

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• अस्मान्: us
• अस्मान्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Plural

• पुरः: in front, before
• पुरः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरस्
• Form: true

• उपनृत्यन्ति: they dance near/around (they perform/dance up to)
• उपनृत्यन्ति: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: उप-नृत्
• Form: Present, Parasmaipada, Third, Plural

• मूढाः: deluded, foolish
• मूढाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मूढ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• गौः: cow
• Type: Noun
• Root: गो
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• इति: thus, saying
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति
• Form: true

• गौः: cow
• Type: Noun
• Root: गो
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• इति: thus, saying
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति
• Form: true

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how derisive speech and humiliating mockery—especially in moments of power—reflect delusion (mūḍhatā) and can become morally charged causes of later hostility and suffering within the dharmic narrative of the war.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a taunting scene: certain people had earlier performed and jeered in front of the speaker’s side, repeatedly shouting “cow, cow,” a refrain used as ridicule; the line recalls past insults amid the escalating violence of the Shalya Parva.