Shloka 28
अभिमन्युविलापः (Abhimanyu-vilāpa) — Uttarā’s lament, observed and framed by Gandhārī
एतावानिह संवासो विहितस्ते मया सह । षण्मासान् सप्तमे मासि त्वं वीर निधनं गत:,“वीर! इस लोकमें तो मेरे साथ आपका कुल छः: महीनोंतक ही सहवास रहा है। सातवें महीनेमें ही आप वीरगतिको प्राप्त हो गये”
etāvān iha saṁvāso vihitas te mayā saha | ṣaṇmāsān saptame māsi tvaṁ vīra nidhanaṁ gataḥ ||
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「この世において、わたしとそなたが共に過ごす縁は、これだけと定められていた――ただ六か月。七か月目に、勇士よ、そなたは終焉に至り、英雄の死を得たのだ。」
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the fragility and brevity of worldly bonds: even intimate companionship is limited by fate and time, and heroic death in war abruptly ends human relationships, intensifying the ethical reflection on the cost of conflict.
In the Strī Parva’s lamentation context after the Kurukṣetra war, Vaiśampāyana reports a grief-filled recollection: a speaker mourns that their ordained time of living together lasted only six months, and the hero died in the seventh month.