Shloka 28

अभिमन्युविलापः (Abhimanyu-vilāpa) — Uttarā’s lament, observed and framed by Gandhārī

Devanagari script

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”

Transliteration

etāvān iha saṁvāso vihitas te mayā saha | ṣaṇmāsān saptame māsi tvaṁ vīra nidhanaṁ gataḥ ||

Translation

വീരാ! ഈ ലോകത്ത് എനിക്കൊപ്പം നിനക്കു വിധി നിശ്ചയിച്ച സഹവാസം ഇത്രയേ—ആറ് മാസം മാത്രം. ഏഴാം മാസത്തിൽ തന്നെ നീ വീരമൃത്യുവിനെ പ്രാപിച്ചു.

Word by Word

एतावान्so much/this much

इहhere, in this world

संवासःcohabitation, living together

विहितःordained, arranged

तेfor you/to you

मयाby me

सहtogether with

षण्मासान्six months (duration)

सप्तमेin the seventh

मासिmonth

त्वम्you

वीरO hero

निधनम्death, end

गतःgone, attained

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.