Shloka 35

Devanagari script

एवं तदभवद्‌ युद्धमहान्यष्टादश प्रभो । यत्र ते पृथिवीपाला निहता: स्वर्गमावसन्‌,प्रभो! इस प्रकार अठारह दिनोंतक वह युद्ध हुआ है। उसमें जो राजा मारे गये हैं, वे स्वर्गलोकमें जा बसे हैं

Transliteration

evaṁ tad abhavad yuddha-mahān aṣṭādaśa prabho | yatra te pṛthivī-pālā nihatāḥ svargam āvasan, prabho ||

Translation

ヴァースデーヴァは言った。「かくして、主よ、その大戦は十八日にわたり続いた。そしてそこで、地を治める王たちが討たれ、天界に住まうこととなった。」

Word by Word

एवम्thus

तत्that (event/thing)

अभवत्happened/was

युद्धम्the battle

महान्great

अष्टादशeighteen

प्रभोO lord

यत्रwhere/wherein

तेthose

पृथिवीपालाkings (protectors of the earth)

निहताःslain

स्वर्गम्heaven

आवसन्dwelt/abode

प्रभोO lord

Speaker

वासुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

वासुदेव (Vāsudeva/Kṛṣṇa)

प

पृथिवीपाला (kings, rulers of the earth)

स

स्वर्ग (Svarga, heaven)

य

युद्ध (the great war—Kurukṣetra implied)

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?

The verse frames the catastrophic war within a dharmic-heroic horizon: the battle is acknowledged as a fixed historical fact, and the fallen kings are presented as attaining Svarga—reflecting the traditional idea that those who die in righteous Kṣatriya combat may gain heavenly worlds.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāsudeva summarizes the outcome of the Kurukṣetra conflict: it lasted eighteen days, and many kings who fought there were killed; he states that these slain rulers came to dwell in heaven.