Shloka 60

धृतराष्ट्रस्य शोकविलापः — Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Lament and Inquiry to Sañjaya

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें षोडशराजकीयोपाख्यानविषयक साठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargataṁ abhimanyuvadhaparvaṇi ṣoḍaśarājakīyopākhyānaviṣayakaḥ ṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

Ainsi s’achève le soixantième chapitre du Śrī Mahābhārata, dans le Droṇa Parva, au sein de la section Abhimanyu-vadha, concernant l’épisode des seize rois.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner, way

श्रीमहाभारतम्the revered Mahabharata

द्रोणपर्वकेin the Drona-parvan section

अन्तर्गतincluded, contained

अभिमन्युवधपर्वणिin the Abhimanyu-slaying sub-parvan

षोडशराजकीयोपाख्यानविषयकhaving as its subject the episode of the sixteen kings

षष्टितमःsixtieth

अध्यायःchapter

पूरःcomplete, finished

अभवत्was, became (ended)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Abhimanyu-vadha (episode/section)

Ṣ

Ṣoḍaśa-rājānaḥ (sixteen kings, as a collective topic)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches how the Mahābhārata is carefully organized into parvans and adhyāyas, and it frames the preceding material as a coherent episode within the ethical and strategic tensions of the Kurukṣetra war—especially the lead-up and context of Abhimanyu’s death.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is formally closing the sixtieth chapter, identifying its placement: within Droṇa Parva, inside the Abhimanyu-vadha section, and specifying that the chapter’s subject was an upākhyāna concerning sixteen kings. It signals the end of that chapter’s narrative unit.