Shloka 47

अभिमन्युवधः

Abhimanyu’s Fall and the Battlefield Aftermath

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें ब॒हद्धलवधविषयक सैंतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata abhimanyuvadhaparvame bṛhaddhalavadhaviṣayaka saṃtālīśattamādhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat

Translation

ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ದ್ರೋಣಪರ್ವದ ಒಳಗಿನ ಅಭಿಮನ್ಯುವಧಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೃಹದ್ದಲವಧವಿಷಯಕ ನಲವತ್ತೇಳನೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು.

Word by Word

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

• प्रकारेण: in this manner; by this way
• प्रकारेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रकार
• Form: masculine, instrumental, singular

• श्रीमहाभारतम्: the (venerable) Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• द्रोणपर्वके: in the Drona-parvan section
• द्रोणपर्वके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्रोणपर्वक
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• अन्तर्गत: included; contained within
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तर्गत
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: in the Abhimanyu-slaying sub-parvan
• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभिमन्युवधपर्व
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• बृहद्धलवधविषयक: concerning the slaying of Brihadbala
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बृहद्धलवधविषयक
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• सप्तचत्वारिंशत्तमः: forty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तचत्वारिंशत्तम
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• पूरः: complete; finished
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• अभवत्: was; became; was completed
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: imperfect (laṅ), 3rd, singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahābhārata
• Droṇa Parva
• Abhimanyu
• Bṛhaddhala

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it underscores how the epic frames war as a sequence of formally recorded acts. The ethical weight lies in the reminder that violence is not anonymous—each killing is named, categorized, and preserved within a moral-historical narrative.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya signals the completion of the forty-seventh chapter within the Droṇa Parva’s Abhimanyu-vadha section, specifying that the chapter’s topic was the slaying of Bṛhaddhala. It functions as an editorial/narrative marker closing that chapter.