Shloka 61

Devanagari script

वासवीं समरे शर्क्ति ध्रुवं मुज्चेद्‌ युधिष्ठिर । ततो भवेत्‌ ते व्यसन घोरं॑ भरतसत्तम

Transliteration

vāsavīṃ samare śaktiṃ dhruvaṃ muñced yudhiṣṭhira | tato bhavet te vyasanaṃ ghoraṃ bharatasattama ||

Translation

ヴィヤーサは言った。「ユディシュティラよ、戦場において彼は必ずヴァーサヴィーの槍を投げ放つであろう。そうなれば、恐るべき災厄が汝に降りかかる、バラタ族の最勝者よ。」

Word by Word

• वासवीं: the Vasavī (Indra’s weapon/spear)
• वासवीं: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वासवी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• शक्तिम्: a spear/weapon
• शक्तिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शक्ति
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• ध्रुवम्: surely/certainly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ध्रुव

• मुच्येत्: would release/let fly
• Type: Verb
• Root: मुच्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Atmanepada

• युधिष्ठिर: O Yudhiṣṭhira
• Type: Noun
• Root: युधिष्ठिर
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• ततः: then/thereupon
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• भवेत्: would be/arise
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• ते: to you/for you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद्
• Form: Dative, Singular

• व्यसनम्: calamity/misfortune
• व्यसनम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्यसन
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• घोरम्: terrible
• Type: Adjective
• Root: घोर
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• भरतसत्तम: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरतसत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Vāsava (Indra)
• Vāsavī Śakti (divine spear)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the inevitability of consequences once a decisive, divinely empowered act is set in motion: when a supreme weapon is released, it brings unavoidable and grave results, testing one’s steadiness in dharma amid crisis.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa warns Yudhiṣṭhira that in the coming battle a warrior will certainly cast the Vāsavī spear (Indra’s famed missile), and that its release will lead to a severe calamity for Yudhiṣṭhira and his side.