Shloka 83

Devanagari script

अधर्मेण हतः पार्थ तस्यैषा निष्कृति: कृता । “महाबाहु धनंजय! आप मेरी कही हुई सारी बातें ध्यान देकर सुनिये। पार्थ! महाभारत- युद्धमें आपने जो शान्तनुकुमार महाराज भीष्मको अधर्मपूर्वक मारा है, उस पापका यह प्रायश्चित्त कर दिया गया

Transliteration

adharmeṇa hataḥ pārtha tasyaivaiṣā niṣkṛtiḥ kṛtā |

Translation

પાર્થ! તે અધર્મથી હણાયો હતો; તેથી તે કર્મનું આ પ્રાયશ્ચિત્ત કરવામાં આવ્યું છે.

Word by Word

अधर्मेणby unrighteousness / unjustly

हतःkilled / slain

पार्थO Partha (Arjuna)

तस्यof that / of him

एषाthis

निष्कृतिःexpiation / atonement

कृताdone / performed

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Arjuna (Pārtha)

Bhīṣma (implied by context: Śāntanukumāra)

Dharma/Adharma (ethical principle)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even in a dharma-yuddha, actions perceived as adharma create moral residue; therefore one must acknowledge fault and undertake niṣkṛti (expiation) to restore ethical balance and inner integrity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Arjuna is addressed as Pārtha and reminded that the slaying occurred ‘by adharma’; the speaker states that an expiatory act has been carried out to atone for that transgression—implicitly referring to the controversial circumstances surrounding Bhīṣma’s fall in the Kurukṣetra war.