Mahabharata 9.65.65 — Shalya Parva, Adhyaya 65, Shloka 65

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शल्यपर्वणि गदापर्वणि अभश्वृत्थामसैनापत्याभिषेके पज्चषष्टितमो<5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śalyaparvaṇi gadāparvaṇi aśvatthāma-saināpatyābhiṣeke pañcaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

サञ्जयは結ぶ。「かくして、尊き『マハーバーラタ』のうち、シャリヤ・パルヴァ—とりわけガダー・パルヴァ—において、軍の総司令官としてアシュヴァッターマンを灌頂し任じることを述べた第六十五章は終わる。この結章句は戦記の流れにおける正式な転換を示し、道義の崩壊と暴力の激化のただ中にあっても、指揮権が儀礼によって確証されることを際立たせる。」

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शल्यपर्वणि: in the Śalya-parvan
• शल्यपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शल्यपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• गदापर्वणि: in the Gadā-parvan (club-fight section)
• गदापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गदापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अश्वत्थाम: of Aśvatthāman
• Type: Noun
• Root: अश्वत्थामन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• सेनापत्य: in (the matter of) the commandership
• सेनापत्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सेनापत्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अभिषेके: in the consecration/installation
• अभिषेके: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभिषेक
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चषष्टितमः: sixty-fifth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahābhārata
• Śalya Parva
• Gadā Parva
• Aśvatthāmā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon underscores that even in war, authority is legitimized through ritual and formal acknowledgment; ethically, it invites reflection on how institutions can continue to function and confer power even when the surrounding conduct is increasingly adharma-driven.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon: Sañjaya signals that the sixty-fifth chapter of the Śalya Parva (within the Gadā Parva section) has concluded, and its subject is the installation (abhiṣeka) of Aśvatthāmā as commander-in-chief.