Mahabharata 7.49.48 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 49, Shloka 48

Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 49: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Lament and Strategic Foreboding after Abhimanyu’s Fall

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमनन्‍्युवधपर्वमें आभिमन्युको रथह्दीन करनेसे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला अड़्तालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Droṇaparvake antargata Abhimanyuvadhaparvame ābhimanyuko rathahīna karaṇena sambandha rakhanevālā aḍatālīsavāṃ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ huā.

Translation

Así concluye el capítulo cuadragésimo octavo de la sección Abhimanyu-vadha, dentro del Droṇa Parva del venerable Mahābhārata, relativo al episodio en que Abhimanyu fue privado de su carro de guerra.

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• प्रकारम्: manner/way
• प्रकारम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रकार
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• श्रीमहाभारतम्: the Mahabharata (honorific)
• श्रीमहाभारतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• द्रोणपर्वके: in the Drona-parvan
• द्रोणपर्वके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्रोणपर्वक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अन्तर्गत: included/contained
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तर्गत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: in the Abhimanyu-slaying sub-parvan
• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभिमन्युवधपर्व
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आभिमन्युको: of Abhimanyu (pertaining to Abhimanyu)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आभिमन्युक
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• रथहीन: deprived of chariot/chariotless
• रथहीन: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रथहीन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• करणेन: by the act of doing/making
• करणेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: करण
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• सम्बन्ध: connection/relation
• सम्बन्ध: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सम्बन्ध
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• रखणवाला: having/keeping (Hindi form; 'possessing')
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रक्षणवाला
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अष्टचत्वारिंशत्तमः: forty-eighth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टचत्वारिंशत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• पूर्णः: completed/finished
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर्ण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अभवत्: was/became
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahābhārata
• Droṇa Parva
• Abhimanyu
• ratha (chariot)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a chapter-colophon, the passage does not teach through a direct maxim; instead it frames the ethical weight of the episode by highlighting a pivotal act in war—rendering Abhimanyu chariotless—which signals how combat can slide from rule-bound contest toward morally fraught tactics.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing statement for the chapter: it announces that the forty-eighth chapter of the Abhimanyu-vadha subsection within Droṇa Parva is complete, and specifies that its topic concerned Abhimanyu being made without his chariot.