Shloka 92

Devanagari script

गाण्डीवप्रहितान्‌ घोरानद्य गात्रै: स्पृशन्‌ शरान्‌

Transliteration

gāṇḍīvaprahitān ghorān adya gātraiḥ spṛśan śarān

Translation

三阇耶说道：“今日，他在自己肢体上亲自感受着那由甘狄婆弓射出的可怖箭矢。”

Word by Word

• गाण्डीव-प्रहितान्: shot from (the bow) Gāṇḍīva
• गाण्डीव-प्रहितान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गाण्डीवप्रहित (गाण्डीव + प्रहित)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• घोरान्: terrible
• घोरान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: घोर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• अद्य: today/now
• अद्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य

• गात्रैः: with (his) limbs/body-parts
• गात्रैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गात्र
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• स्पृशन्: touching
• स्पृशन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्पृश्
• Form: Present, Singular, Parasmaipada, Active present participle (शतृ), Masculine, Nominative

• शरान्: arrows
• शरान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Gāṇḍīva
• Arjuna (implied as wielder of Gāṇḍīva)
• arrows (śara)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the immediacy of consequences in warfare: prowess and aggression invite equal and opposite suffering. It highlights how martial actions return as embodied experience—one ‘touches’ the results of another’s skill and one’s own choices.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that, in the thick of battle, a warrior is now being struck—literally feeling on his body—the fearsome arrows shot from Arjuna’s bow, Gāṇḍīva, emphasizing Arjuna’s overwhelming force at this moment.