P305

Question 1

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.07 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
मुद्गर m.

Answer 1

मुद्गर m. mudgaraḥ मुद्गरः [मुदं गिरति गॄ-अच्] 1 A hammer, mallet, as in मोहमुद्गरः (a small poem by Śaṅkarāchārya); समधूच्छिष्ट- मुद्गराः Mb.5.155.; शिलानिष्पिष्टमुद्गरः R.12.73. -2 A club, mace. -3 A staff for breaking clods of earth. -4 A kind of dumb-bell. -5 A bud. -6 A kind of jasmine (said to be n. also in this sense). -7 A particular posture in sitting.

Question 2

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.07 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
जनार्दन m.

Answer 2

जनार्दन m. == VISHNU (OR RAMA OR KRISHNA)
(gaRa nandy-ādi-) “exciting or agitating men”, viṣṇu- or kṛṣṇa-
LIT., ‘TORMENTOR OF MEN’
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जन ‘people’ +
ardana अर्दन a. 1 Distressing, afflicting, tormenting; पुर˚, बल˚. -2 Moving restlessly, being agitated. -नः N. of Śiva; Mbh.13. -नम् [भावे-ल्युट्] Distressing, afflicting; pain, trouble, anxiety, disturbance, excitement, agitation, restlessness. -नम्, -ना 1 Going, moving. -2 Asking, begging. -3 Killing, hurting, giving pain.

Question 3

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.11 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
धिक् त्वां गच्छेति मां हत्वा पदा पापिभिरावृतः ।

Answer 3

धिक् त्वां गच्छेति मां हत्वा पदा पापिभिरावृतः ।
‘“The hell with you! Go!”, (having said this) he struck me with his foot, surrounded as he was by sinful persons (पापिन् adj.)’

Question 4

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.14 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
महाभागवतोऽसि त्वं

Answer 4

महाभागवतोऽसि त्वं

== ‘(that) you are (A FAVORITE DISCIPLE/DEVOTEE) of the Lord’

Question 5

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.15 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
मदीयो वा परो वापि

Answer 5

मदीयो वा परो वापि

== ‘(whether) my own [i.e. fighting on my side] or an enemy’

Question 6

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.17 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
पेषयति

Answer 6

पेषयति == ‘he is crushing’ (‘causing to be crushed’)
CS X FROM √पिष् VII पिनष्टि
पिष् cl.7 P. () pinaṣṭi- (rarely A1.; subjunctive 2. 3. sg. piṇak- ; imperative piṃṣ/a- ; piṃṣe-; apiṃṣat-; piṣeyam- ; perfect tense pip/eṣa-, pipiṣe- ; Aorist apikṣan- ; future pekṣyati- ; peṣṭā- grammar; ind.p. piṣṭv/ā-, -p/eṣam- ; piṣya- ; infinitive mood pesṭum-, p/eṣṭav/ai- ), to crush, bruise, grind, pound, hurt, injure, destroy (figuratively also with genitive case ) etc. ; Causal peṣayati- (Aorist apīpiṣat- grammar), to crush, bruise, grind etc. (grammar also “to give; to be strong; to dwell”). [Cf Zend piS; Greek [?] ; Latin pinsere,pIsere.]

Question 7

YUDDHA KĀṆḌAM
08.17 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
गन्धहस्तिन् m.

Answer 7

गन्धहस्तिन् m. a bull elephant in rut