Shloka 15

Devanagari script

ततस्तूर्यशताकीर्ण नटनर्तकसंकुलम्‌ । अवर्तत महापानं प्रभासे तिग्मतेजसाम्‌,तदनन्तर वहाँ सैकड़ों प्रकारके बाजे बजने लगे। सब ओर नटों और नर्तकोंका नृत्य होने लगा। इस प्रकार प्रभासक्षेत्रमें प्रचण्ड तेजस्वी यादवोंका वह महापान आरम्भ हुआ

Transliteration

tatas tūryaśatākīrṇaṃ naṭanartakasaṅkulam | avartata mahāpānaṃ prabhāse tigmatajasām ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。ついで、百種の楽器の轟きのただ中、役者と舞人が群れ集う中で、プラバーサにおいて、烈しい光輝を帯びたヤーダヴァたちの大いなる酒宴が始まった。

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

तूर्यशताकीर्णम्filled with hundreds of musical instruments

नटनर्तकसंकुलम्crowded with actors and dancers

अवर्ततwent on, took place, began

महापानम्great drinking bout

प्रभासेat Prabhāsa

तिग्मतेजसाम्of the fierce/keen-splendored (ones)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Prabhāsa

Yādavas

tūrya (musical instruments)

naṭa (actors)

nartaka (dancers)

mahāpāna (drinking bout)

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 highlights how indulgence—especially intoxication amid revelry—erodes self-control and ethical judgment. In the Mahābhārata’s moral frame, such loss of restraint becomes a proximate cause that allows latent curses and karmic consequences to manifest as catastrophe.

What is happening in the narrative?

At Prabhāsa, the Yādavas begin a grand drinking festival. Music blares, performers and dancers fill the area, and the atmosphere turns into a large-scale revel—setting the stage for the later escalation into quarrel and destruction in the Mausala narrative.