Shanti Parva Adhyaya 5 Shloka 15 - Mahabharata | Lao | Vedapath

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Shloka 15

Adhyāya 5 (Śānti-parva): Nārada’s account of Karṇa—Jarāsandha encounter and the causal grounds of Karṇa’s fall

Devanagari script

एवं शप्तस्तव भ्राता बहुभिश्नापि वज्चित:ः । न शोच्य: पुरुषव्याप्र युद्धेन निधनं गत:

Transliteration

evaṁ śaptas tava bhrātā bahubhiś cāpi vañcitaḥ | na śocyaḥ puruṣavyāghra yuddhena nidhanaṁ gataḥ puruṣasiṁha yudhiṣṭhira ||

Translation

ນາຣະດະ ກ່າວວ່າ: «ດັ່ງນັ້ນ ອ້າຍນ້ອງຂອງເຈົ້າ—ແມ່ນແມ່ນວ່າຖືກສາບແຊ່ງ ແລະຖືກຫຼອກລວງໂດຍຫຼາຍຄົນ—ກໍໄດ້ພົບຈຸດຈົບໃນສົງຄາມ. ດັ່ງນັ້ນ ໂອ ຢຸທິສຖິຣະ ຜູ້ເປັນເສືອໃນຫມູ່ມະນຸດ, ບໍ່ຄວນປ່ອຍໃຫ້ຄວາມໂສກເສົ້າຄອບງຳເພື່ອເຂົາ».

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

शप्तःcursed

तवof you, your

भ्राताbrother

बहुभिःby many (people)

अपिalso, even

वञ्चितःdeceived, cheated

नnot

शोच्यःto be mourned (worthy of grief)

पुरुषव्याघ्रO tiger among men

युद्धेनby/through war, in battle

निधनम्death, destruction

गतःhas gone to, has met (death)

पुरुषसिंहO lion among men

युधिष्ठिरO Yudhiṣṭhira

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Yudhiṣṭhira

Karna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Nārada urges Yudhiṣṭhira to restrain grief by viewing death in battle within a dharmic frame: even when a person is burdened by curses and human deceit, the end that comes through war is presented as a completed destiny, and excessive lamentation is discouraged.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada addresses Yudhiṣṭhira and speaks about his brother Karṇa, noting that Karṇa had been cursed and also misled by many; yet since he died in the war, Nārada counsels that Yudhiṣṭhira should not treat him as an object of prolonged mourning.