Shloka 16
उत्पातदर्शनम् — Portents and Kāla among the Vṛṣṇis
कृष्णस्य संनिधौ राम: सहित: कृतवर्मणा । अपिबद् युयुधानश्न गदो बभ्रुस्तथैव च,श्रीकृष्णके पास ही कृतवर्मासहित बलराम, सात्यकि, गद और बश्रु पीने लगे
kṛṣṇasya saṃnidhau rāmaḥ sahitaḥ kṛtavarmaṇā | apibad yuyudhānaś ca gado babhrus tathaiva ca ||
कृष्णस्य संनिधौ रामः सहितः कृतवर्मणा । अपिबद् युयुधानश्च गदो बभ्रुस्तथैव च ॥
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even in the presence of the highest moral authority, a community can fall when vigilance and self-restraint are abandoned. The verse foreshadows how intoxication and heedlessness become immediate ethical causes that allow latent hostility and destiny to manifest as catastrophe.
Vaiśampāyana reports that Balarāma, along with Kṛtavarman, and also Sātyaki (Yuyudhāna), Gada, and Babhru, begin drinking near Kṛṣṇa. This is part of the build-up in the Mausala Parva to the internecine conflict and destruction of the Yādavas.