Shloka 18

मौसलपर्व — अध्याय ८

Arjuna’s evacuation of Dvārakā, Vasudeva’s rites, and the caravan’s crisis

Devanagari script

अस्त्राणि मे प्रणष्टानि विविधानि महामुने

Transliteration

astrāṇi me praṇaṣṭāni vividhāni mahāmune

Translation

アルジュナは言った。「大いなる聖仙よ、我がさまざまな武器は失われてしまった。」この破局ののち、その一行は冷ややかな転倒を告げる――名高き戦士の拠り所であった武の力が空しくなり、時と運命が背を向けるとき、世の力の脆さが露わになる。

Word by Word

• अस्त्राणि: weapons
• अस्त्राणि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्त्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• मे: my/of me
• मे: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• प्रणष्टानि: lost, destroyed
• प्रणष्टानि: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्र-नश्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• विविधानि: various, manifold
• विविधानि: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विविध
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• महामुने: O great sage
• Type: Noun
• Root: महामुनि
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• mahāmuni (a great sage)
• astrāṇi (weapons)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even the greatest worldly capacities—skill, arms, and fame—are unstable; dharma requires humility and clarity when power fails, recognizing the larger movement of time and consequence after violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Arjuna addresses a revered sage and reports that his diverse weapons are no longer available—signaling a loss of the martial resources that once defined him and marking the waning of the heroic age in the Mausala Parva’s aftermath.