Shloka 5

Devanagari script

महागजमिवारण्ये व्याधेन विनिपातितम्‌ । विवर्तमानं बहुशो रुधिरौघपरिप्लुतम्‌

Transliteration

mahāgajam ivāraṇye vyādhena vinipātitam | vivartamānaṃ bahuśo rudhiraughapariplutam ||

Translation

三阇耶说：“在那里，他们看见持国之子难敌被击倒在地——如同林中巨象为猎人所毙。血流成河，浸没其身；他伏卧尘土之上，痛苦扭动，一次又一次翻转。”

Word by Word

• महागजम्: a great elephant
• महागजम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महागज
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

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

• अरण्ये: in the forest
• अरण्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अरण्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• व्याधेन: by a hunter
• व्याधेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्याध
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• विनिपातितम्: felled/struck down
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-नि-पत्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• विवर्तमानम्: rolling/turning about
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-वृत्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• बहुशः: many times/repeatedly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: बहुशः

• रुधिरौघपरिप्लुतम्: submerged in a flood/stream of blood
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रुधिर-ओघ-परिप्लुत
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Duryodhana
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• forest (araṇya)
• hunter (vyādha)
• elephant (gaja)
• blood (rudhira)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the stark moral cost of adharma-driven ambition: even the mightiest warrior-king can be reduced to helpless suffering. The elephant-and-hunter simile highlights how power and pride collapse under the consequences of violent conflict and accumulated wrongdoing.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports what is seen on the battlefield: Duryodhana lies struck down, drenched in blood, repeatedly writhing and turning on the ground—described through the vivid comparison of a great forest elephant felled by a hunter.