सर्व पुस्तके | Shrimad Bhagavatam | Canto 10: The Summum Bonum |CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: The Marriage of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī

SB 10.54.8

हस्ता: सासिगदेष्वासा: करभा ऊरवोऽङ्‍‍घ्रय: ।
अश्वाश्वतरनागोष्ट्रखरमर्त्यशिरांसि च ॥ ८ ॥

शब्दार्थ

hastāḥ — hands; sa — with; asi — swords; gadā — clubs; iṣu-āsāḥ — bows; karabhāḥ — fingerless hands; ūravaḥ — thighs; aṅghrayaḥ — legs; aśva — of horses; aśvatara — donkeys; nāga — elephants; uṣṭra — camels; khara — wild asses; martya — and humans; śirāṁsi — heads; ca — also.

भाषांतर

Lying all around were thighs, legs and fingerless hands, along with hands clutching swords, clubs and bows, and also the heads of horses, donkeys, elephants, camels, wild asses and humans.

तात्पर्य

Karabhāḥ indicates the portion of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. The same word may also indicate an elephant’s trunk, and thus in this verse the implication is that the thighs lying on the battlefield resembled the trunks of elephants.

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