Shloka 76

Devanagari script

दशमे<5हनि राजेन्द्र भीष्मार्जुनसमागमे । आसीद्‌ गाज्ज इवावर्तो मुहूर्तमुदधेरिव

Transliteration

daśame ’hani rājendra bhīṣmārjuna-samāgame | āsīd gāṅgāmbhasi vāvarto muhūrtam udadher iva ||

Translation

三阇耶说道：“大王啊，第十日，毗湿摩与阿周那交锋之时，片刻之间，那景象宛如大海中腾起巨大的漩涡——好似恒河奔注入海，水势翻涌激荡。”

Word by Word

• दशमे: on the tenth
• दशमे: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दशम
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अहनि: day
• अहनि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• राजेन्द्र: O king of kings
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजेन्द्र
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• भीष्मार्जुनसमागमे: in the encounter of Bhishma and Arjuna
• भीष्मार्जुनसमागमे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मार्जुन-समागम
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• आसीत्: there was
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular

• गाङ्गः: of/like the Ganga (Ganges-born)
• गाङ्गः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गाङ्ग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• आवर्तः: whirlpool/eddy
• आवर्तः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आवर्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• मुहूर्तम्: for a moment (a muhūrta)
• मुहूर्तम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुहूर्त
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• उदधेः: of the ocean
• Type: Noun
• Root: उदधि
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

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

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Bhīṣma
• Arjuna
• Gaṅgā
• Ocean (udadhi)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the overwhelming force unleashed when great warriors meet: even within the bounds of kṣatriya-dharma, battle can become a natural-cataclysm-like event, reminding the listener of the grave consequences and moral weight of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

On the tenth day of the Kurukṣetra war, Bhīṣma and Arjuna engage directly. Sañjaya describes the clash’s intensity through a simile: it looked like a huge whirlpool in the ocean, as if stirred by the Gaṅgā’s descent into it.