Mahabharata 9.2.513 — Shalya Parva, Adhyaya 2, Shloka 513

धृतराष्ट्रविलापः — Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Lament and Inquiry (Śalya-parva, Adhyāya 2)

Devanagari script

एकेन समरे येन हतं पुत्रशतं मम | जब दुर्योधन मारा गया

Transliteration

ekena samare yena hataṁ putraśataṁ mama | taṁ bhīmasenaṁ kathaṁ śroṣye uccaiḥ proktaṁ vacas tadā ||

Translation

ဓೃತရာഷ്ട్రက ပြောသည်—“စစ်မြေပြင်၌ တစ်ယောက်တည်းဖြင့် ငါ့သားတစ်ရာကို သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့သော ဘီမစေန၏ အော်ဟစ်သံကြီးကို ငါ မည်သို့ ခံနိုင်မည်နည်း။ ဒုရ്യೋಧန သေဆုံးပြီး၊ ရန်ပွဲ၌ ရှလျလည်း ပျက်စီးကာ၊ ဒုಃရှာသန၊ ဝိဝိံရှတိ နှင့် မဟာဗလ ဝိကර්ဏ တို့ပါ လဲကျသွားသောအခါ—ငါ့မျိုးရိုးကို ချည်းနှီးစေခဲ့သော ထိုသူ၏ အောင်ပွဲကြွေးကြော်သံကို ငါ မည်သို့ သည်းခံနိုင်မည်နည်း။”

Word by Word

• एकेन: by one (alone)
• एकेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• समरे: in battle
• समरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समर
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• येन: by whom
• येन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• हतम्: killed/slain
• हतम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: हन्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• पुत्रशतम्: a hundred sons
• पुत्रशतम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्रशत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• मम: of me / my
• मम: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

धघतयाट्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Bhīmasena (Bhīma)
• Duryodhana
• Śalya
• Duḥśāsana
• Vivimśati
• Vikarna
• Kauravas (hundred sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• Kurukṣetra (battlefield context)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the moral weight of war’s outcomes: attachment and partiality culminate in unbearable grief. Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s anguish underscores how adharma-driven choices and refusal to restrain wrongdoing return as devastating consequences, even when the battlefield victory is ‘justified’ by kṣatriya norms.

What is happening in the narrative?

Dhṛtarāṣṭra, hearing reports of the war, laments that Bhīma—who killed his hundred sons—has also outlived and defeated key Kaurava champions. He dreads hearing Bhīma’s loud, victorious words after the deaths of Duryodhana, Śalya, Duḥśāsana, Vivimśati, and Vikarna.