Shloka 66

Devanagari script

भीम॑ समनन्‍्तात्‌ समरे5 भ्यरोहन्‌ वृक्ष शकुन्ता इव जातपक्षा: | जैसे जिनके पंख निकल आये हैं

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | bhīmaṃ samantāt samare 'bhyarohan vṛkṣa-śakuntā iva jātapakṣāḥ |

Translation

三阇耶曰：如初生羽翼之雏鸟自四方飞来，齐落一树；如是于战场之上，那些为毗摩塞那精妙之箭所伤、所裂的诸位首领之王，从四面八方逼近毗摩，欲合力压倒他。

Word by Word

• भीमम्: Bhima
• भीमम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीम
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• समन्तात्: from all sides / all around
• समन्तात्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: समन्तात्

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अभ्यरोहन्: they mounted / rushed up (upon)
• अभ्यरोहन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-रुह्
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Plural, Parasmaipada

• वृक्षम्: a tree
• वृक्षम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• शकुन्ताः: birds
• शकुन्ताः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शकुन्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• जातपक्षाः: having grown wings / newly winged
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जात-पक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhīma (Bhīmasena)
• foremost kings (pradhāna-nareśāḥ)
• battlefield (samara)
• birds (śakuntāḥ)
• tree (vṛkṣa)
• arrows (bāṇāḥ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights a battlefield ethic: when a single warrior becomes dominant, opponents often unite to check him. It underscores both Bhīma’s formidable prowess (his arrows wounding many leaders) and the kṣatriya impulse to confront strength directly, even at great risk.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes how leading kings, injured by Bhīma’s powerful arrows, nevertheless surge toward him from every direction, clustering around him the way newly winged birds converge upon a tree.