Shloka 176

Devanagari script

उद्वृत्तानां यथा शब्द: समुद्राणां युगक्षये । अर्जुनके प्रति आक्रमण करते हुए उन वीरोंका सिंहनाद उसी प्रकार सुनायी पड़ा

Transliteration

udvṛttānāṃ yathā śabdaḥ samudrāṇāṃ yugakṣaye | arjunakaṃ prati ākramaṇaṃ kurvatāṃ teṣāṃ vīrāṇāṃ siṃhanādaḥ sa tathā śrūyate, yathā pralayakāle svāṃ maryādāṃ vihāya vardhamānānāṃ samudrāṇāṃ bhīṣaṇā garjanā śrūyate |

Translation

三阇耶说：如同劫末之时，大海抛却堤岸，翻涌而起，发出骇人的轰鸣；那些英雄为攻阿周那而奔突之际，其狮子般的战吼亦如此震耳。此喻凸显：当克制崩解，毁灭似无度膨胀之时，战争便显出那种压倒一切、撼动世界的力量。

Word by Word

• उद्वृत्तानाम्: of (those) overflowing / risen beyond bounds
• उद्वृत्तानाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उद्वृत्त
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• यथा: as, just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• शब्दः: sound, roar
• शब्दः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शब्द
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• समुद्राणाम्: of the oceans
• समुद्राणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: समुद्र
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• युगक्षये: at the end of an age (world-dissolution)
• युगक्षये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युगक्षय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Arjuna
• oceans (samudrāḥ)
• yugakṣaya (end of the age)
• pralaya (cosmic dissolution)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses cosmic dissolution imagery to highlight how war magnifies when maryādā (restraint and limits) collapses; it implicitly warns that abandoning bounds—ethical or natural—unleashes overwhelming, destructive force.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports that warriors advancing to attack Arjuna raised such a thunderous lion-cry that it resembled the fearsome roar of oceans swelling beyond their limits at the end of an age.