Shloka 63

कर्णपुत्रवधः (The Fall of Vṛṣasena) — Karṇa Parva, Adhyāya 62

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि धर्मापयाने त्रिषष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi dharmāpayāne triṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, titled “Dharmāpayāna,” in the Karṇa Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata. This closing colophon signals the completion of a section of the war narrative, framing the events within the moral horizon of dharma and its difficult course amid conflict.

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• कर्णपर्वणि: in the Karna Parva
• कर्णपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्णपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• धर्मापयाने: in (the section called) Dharmapayana
• धर्मापयाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्मापयान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• त्रिषष्टितमः: sixty-third
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रिषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

(युधिष्टिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Karṇa Parva
• Dharmāpayāna