तस्मिन् द्रुते गजानीके जलसंधो महारथः ॥
यत्तः संप्रापयन् नागं रजताश्वरथं प्रति ॥
रुक्मवर्णकरः शूरस् तपनीयाङ्गदः शुचिः ॥
कुण्डली मुकुटी शङ्खी रक्तचन्दनरूषितः ॥
शिरसा धारयन् दीप्तां तपनीयमयीं स्रजम् ॥
उरसा धारयन् निष्कं कण्ठसूत्रं च भास्वरम् ॥
चापं च रुक्मविकृतं विधुन्वन् गजमूर्धनि ॥
अशोभत महाराज सविद्युद् इव तोयदः ॥
tasmin drute gajānīke jalasaṃdho mahārathaḥ ||
yattaḥ saṃprāpayan nāgaṃ rajatāśvarathaṃ prati ||
rukmavarṇakaraḥ śūras tapanīyāṅgadaḥ śuciḥ ||
kuṇḍalī mukuṭī śaṅkhī raktacandanarūṣitaḥ ||
śirasā dhārayan dīptāṃ tapanīyamayīṃ srajam ||
urasā dhārayan niṣkaṃ kaṇṭhasūtraṃ ca bhāsvaram ||
cāpaṃ ca rukmavikṛtaṃ vidhunvan gajamūrdhani ||
aśobhata mahārāja savidyud iva toyadaḥ ||
[When] that array of elephants had fled, Jalasandha, the great warrior, making ready, guided [his] elephant toward the chariot with silver horses. [With] a golden-hued [bracelet on his] arm, the hero, [in] golden armlets, pure, [in] earrings, [in] a diadem, [with] a conch, anointed with red sandal, bearing on [his] head a blazing golden garland, on [his] chest a nishka and a shining neck-cord, and brandishing a bow adorned with gold on the head of the elephant, he shone, o great king, like a cloud [with] lightning.
5796e1f88d62 · प्रकाशित 19 जुल॰ 2026, 4:08:02 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Jalasandha is displayed in the fullness of splendor — gold, diadem, sandalwood, like "savidyut iva toyadaḥ," a cloud with lightning: fearsome beauty before its fall. It is telling that the epic adorns with special magnificence the one who is soon to perish. The verse teaches that splendor on the eve of death is deceptive: the resplendent adornment of a warrior is no pledge of triumph, but often only the raiment of the doomed — and the more brightly it burns, the nearer, often, is its setting.