Shloka 153

Devanagari script

ततस्ते निधन प्राप्ता: सर्वे ससुतबान्धवा: । श्रीभगवानने कहा--महर्षे! मैंने पहले कौरवोंके पास जाकर उन्हें शान्त करनेके लिये बड़ा प्रयत्न किया, परंतु वे किसी तरह संधिके लिये तैयार न किये जा सके। जब उन्हें समतापूर्ण मार्गमें स्थापित करना असम्भव हो गया, तब वे सब-के-सब अपने पुत्र और बन्धु-बान्धवोंसहित युद्धमें मारे गये

Transliteration

tatas te nidhana-prāptāḥ sarve sa-suta-bāndhavāḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: Thereafter, all of them met their end—together with their sons and kinsmen. The sense conveyed is that, despite earnest efforts to bring the Kauravas to peace and establish them on an equitable path, reconciliation proved impossible; thus they, along with their familial supporters, were slain in the war—an ethical warning about the ruin that follows obstinate refusal of concord and dharma.

Word by Word

ततःthen/thereupon

तेthey/those

निधनम्death/destruction

प्राप्ताःhaving met/attained (death)

सर्वेall

सwith

सुतsons

बान्धवाःkinsmen/relatives

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Kauravas (implied by context)

Śrī Bhagavān / Kṛṣṇa (in the accompanying Hindi gloss)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When a party rejects fair reconciliation and refuses to be established on an even-handed dharmic path, the result is collective ruin; the verse underscores the moral cost of obstinacy and the tragic inevitability of war when peace is made impossible.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports that ‘they’—understood in context as the Kaurava side—perished in the war along with their sons and relatives, after attempts at pacification and settlement failed.