Shloka 62

Kuru-Sainika-Āśvāsana and Vijayaghoṣaṇa

Reassuring the Kuru Soldiers; Proclaiming Victory

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते विराटपर्वणि गोहरणपर्वणि अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे द्विषष्टितमो5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvaṇi goharaṇaparvaṇi arjunasāṅkulayuddhe dviṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا انتهى الفصل الثاني والستون من «فيراطا بارفا» في «شري مهابهارتا»، ضمن حادثة «غو-هَرَنَة» (غارة سلب الماشية)، واصفًا القتال المحتدم المتشابك الذي خاضه أرجونا. وتشير خاتمة الفصل إلى إغلاق وحدةٍ من السرد تُبرز حماية المستضعفين (الماشية المسلوبة) والاستعمال المنضبط للقوة، مُصوِّرةً قتال أرجونا بوصفه ردًّا دارميًّا على العدوان لا عنفًا لذاته.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• विराटपर्वणि: in the Virāṭa-parvan
• विराटपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: विराटपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• गोहरणपर्वणि: in the Cow-seizure (Goharaṇa) sub-parvan
• गोहरणपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गोहरणपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे: in the battle crowded with Arjuna (i.e., involving Arjuna prominently)
• अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्ध
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• द्विषष्टितमः: sixty-second
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्विषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Virāṭa Parva
• Goharaṇa-parvan (cattle-raid episode)
• Arjuna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the preceding events as a completed unit where force is justified only as a disciplined, duty-bound response to wrongdoing—protecting what has been unjustly seized and restoring order.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon: it announces that the sixty-second chapter of the Virāṭa Parva has concluded, situated in the cattle-raid episode and centered on the intense battle involving Arjuna.