Shloka 2

बलाहकादिसप्तसेनानायकप्रेषणम् (Dispatch of the Seven Commanders beginning with Balāhaka) / Lalitopākhyāna War Continuation

Devanagari script

भद्र सेनापते ऽस्माकमभद्रं समुपागतम् / करङ्काद्यश्चमूनाथाः कन्दलद्भुजविक्रमाः

Transliteration

bhadra senāpate 'smākamabhadraṃ samupāgatam / karaṅkādyaścamūnāthāḥ kandaladbhujavikramāḥ

Translation

噢，跋陀罗（Bhadra），我军统帅！不祥已临于我等。以迦兰迦为首的诸军主，臂力方盛、勇威炽然者，皆遭此厄。

Word by Word

• bhadra: O noble one
• bhadra: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bhadra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative (8th/सम्बोधन), Singular; used as address

• senā-pate: O commander
• senā-pate: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: senā + pati (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative (8th/सम्बोधन), Singular; tatpuruṣa: सेनायाः पतिः

• asmākam: of us/our
• asmākam: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Plural; pronoun

• abhadram: misfortune/evil
• abhadram: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: abhadra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; (also possible Accusative; here subject)

• samupāgatam: has come upon (us)
• samupāgatam: Kriyā (क्रिया/predicative)
• Type: Verb
• Root: sam-upa-√gam (धातु; क्त-प्रत्यय, कृदन्त)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Neuter, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; predicative with abhadram

• karaṅka-ādyāḥ: those beginning with Karaṅka
• karaṅka-ādyāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: karaṅka + ādi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural; tatpuruṣa: करङ्कः आदिः येषाम् (beginning with Karaṅka)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; conjunction (समुच्चय)

• camū-nāthāḥ: leaders of the army
• camū-nāthāḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: camū + nātha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural; tatpuruṣa: चम्वाः नाथाः

• kandalat-bhuja-vikramāḥ: whose arm-prowess was swelling/flourishing
• kandalat-bhuja-vikramāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kandalat (√kandal?; present participial adjective) + bhuja + vikrama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Plural; bahuvrīhi: कन्दलद्भुजविक्रमः येषाम् (whose arm-strength is burgeoning)