Shloka 493

Devanagari script

परस्परकृतं नाशमतः: प्राप्स्यन्ति यादवा: । 'शुभे! वृष्णिकुलका संहार करनेवाला मेरे सिवा दूसरा कोई नहीं है। यादव दूसरे मनुष्यों तथा देवताओं और दानवोंके लिये भी अवध्य हैं; अत: आपसमें ही लड़कर नष्ट होंगे!

Transliteration

parasparakṛtaṃ nāśam ataḥ prāpsyanti yādavāḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “Therefore the Yādavas will meet their destruction through deeds done to one another—perishing by mutual conflict.”

Word by Word

परस्परmutually, with one another

कृतम्done, made

नाशम्destruction

अतःtherefore, hence

प्राप्स्यन्तिwill attain, will meet with

यादवाःthe Yadavas

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Yādavas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even the mighty can fall when inner discord ripens into violence; destruction may arise not from external enemies but from one’s own mutual wrongdoing, reflecting the moral logic of karma and the fragility of social cohesion.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana foretells the end of the Yādavas: they will not be destroyed by outsiders but will reach ruin through fighting among themselves—an ominous prophecy of internecine collapse.