Shloka 83

Devanagari script

विनष्टा: पाण्डवा: कृष्णे शाश्वतं नरकं गता:

Transliteration

vinaṣṭāḥ pāṇḍavāḥ kṛṣṇe śāśvataṁ narakaṁ gatāḥ

Translation

Sañjaya said: “The Pāṇḍavas have been destroyed; because of Kṛṣṇa they have gone to everlasting hell.”

Word by Word

• विनष्टाः: destroyed, perished
• विनष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विनष्ट (वि-नश् धातोः क्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पाण्डवाः: the Pandavas
• पाण्डवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• कृष्णे: in/when (there is) Krishna; with Krishna (as the locus/condition)
• कृष्णे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• शाश्वतम्: eternal, everlasting
• शाश्वतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शाश्वत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• नरकम्: hell
• नरकम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: नरक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• गताः: have gone, went (having gone)
• गताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: गत (गम् धातोः क्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pāṇḍavas
• Kṛṣṇa
• Naraka (hell)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The line illustrates how, amid war and grief, people may distort moral judgment by projecting blame onto a revered figure (Kṛṣṇa). Ethically, it warns against misattributing responsibility and against interpreting complex dharmic outcomes through resentment rather than discernment.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Karṇa Parva battle context, Sañjaya reports a harsh claim that the Pāṇḍavas are ruined and, ‘because of Kṛṣṇa,’ have fallen into eternal hell—an emotionally charged assessment rather than a settled doctrinal verdict.