Mahabharata — Shalya Parva, Shloka 69

Kārttikeya-Abhiṣecana: Mātṛgaṇa-Nāma Saṃkīrtana and Skanda’s Commission

Devanagari script

कालकण्ठ: प्रभासश्न॒ तथा कुम्भाण्डकोदर: । कालकक्ष: सितश्चैव भूतानां मथनस्तथा

Transliteration

kālakaṇṭhaḥ prabhāsaś ca tathā kumbhāṇḍakodaraḥ | kālakakṣaḥ sitaś caiva bhūtānāṁ mathanas tathā ||

Translation

ဝိုင်သမ္ပာယန မိန့်တော်မူသည်– «ကာလကဏ္ဌ၊ ပရဘာသ၊ ကုမ္ဘာဏ္ဍကုဒရ၊ ထို့တူ ကာလကက္ခ နှင့် စိတ၊ ထို့ပြင် ဘူတာနံမထန ဟူသော အမည်ရှိသူတို့လည်း ရှိကြ၏»။

Word by Word

• कालकण्ठः: Kālakāṇṭha (lit. black-throated; a name)
• कालकण्ठः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कालकण्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रभासः: Prabhāsa (a name)
• प्रभासः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रभास
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• तथा: also; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• कुम्भाण्डकोदरः: Kumbhāṇḍakodara (lit. pot-egg-bellied; a name)
• कुम्भाण्डकोदरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कुम्भाण्डकोदर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कालकक्षः: Kālakakṣa (lit. black-axilla/side; a name)
• कालकक्षः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कालकक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सितः: Sita (a name; lit. white)
• सितः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एव: indeed; just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• भूतानाम्: of beings
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूत
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• मथनः: Mathana (churner; a name)
• मथनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मथन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तथा: also; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Kālakaṇṭha
• Prabhāsa
• Kumbhāṇḍakodara
• Kālakakṣa
• Sita
• Bhūtānāṁmathana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse functions as a stark reminder that war memorializes people through fearsome deeds and epithets; the ethical undertone is that violence reduces human identity to terrifying reputations, highlighting the dehumanizing gravity of adharma-driven conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is enumerating named fighters present in the conflict during the Shalya Parva context, listing additional warriors by their proper names as part of a broader catalogue of combatants.