Mahabharata 7.61.60 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 61, Shloka 60

धृतराष्ट्रस्य शोकविलापः — Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Lament and Inquiry to Sañjaya

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें षोडशराजकीयोपाख्यानविषयक साठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargataṁ abhimanyuvadhaparvaṇi ṣoḍaśarājakīyopākhyānaviṣayakaḥ ṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ บทที่หกสิบในศรีมหาภารตะ ภาคโทรณปรวะ ตอนอภิมันยุวธะ ว่าด้วยอุปาขยาน ‘กษัตริย์สิบหกองค์’ จึงสิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• प्रकारम्: manner, way
• प्रकारम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रकार
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• श्रीमहाभारतम्: the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• द्रोणपर्वके: in the Drona-parvan section
• द्रोणपर्वके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्रोणपर्वक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अन्तर्गत: included, contained
• अन्तर्गत: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तर्गत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: in the Abhimanyu-slaying sub-parvan
• अभिमन्युवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभिमन्युवधपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• षोडशराजकीयोपाख्यानविषयक: having as its subject the episode of the sixteen kings
• षोडशराजकीयोपाख्यानविषयक: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षोडशराजकीय-उपाख्यान-विषयक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• षष्टितमः: sixtieth
• षष्टितमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• पूरः: complete, finished
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अभवत्: was, became (ended)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Droṇa Parva
• Abhimanyu-vadha (episode/section)
• Ṣoḍaśa-rājānaḥ (sixteen kings, as a collective topic)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches how the Mahābhārata is carefully organized into parvans and adhyāyas, and it frames the preceding material as a coherent episode within the ethical and strategic tensions of the Kurukṣetra war—especially the lead-up and context of Abhimanyu’s death.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is formally closing the sixtieth chapter, identifying its placement: within Droṇa Parva, inside the Abhimanyu-vadha section, and specifying that the chapter’s subject was an upākhyāna concerning sixteen kings. It signals the end of that chapter’s narrative unit.