Shloka 62

Kuru-Sainika-Āśvāsana and Vijayaghoṣaṇa

Reassuring the Kuru Soldiers; Proclaiming Victory

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते विराटपर्वणि गोहरणपर्वणि अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे द्विषष्टितमो5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvaṇi goharaṇaparvaṇi arjunasāṅkulayuddhe dviṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

อิติ บทที่หกสิบสองในวิราฏปรวะแห่งศรีมหาภารตะ ภายในตอนโกหรณะ (ตอนปล้นโค) ว่าด้วยศึกอันคับคั่งดุเดือดของอรชุน ก็สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• विराटपर्वणि: in the Virāṭa-parvan
• विराटपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: विराटपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• गोहरणपर्वणि: in the Cow-seizure (Goharaṇa) sub-parvan
• गोहरणपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गोहरणपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे: in the battle crowded with Arjuna (i.e., involving Arjuna prominently)
• अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्धे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्जुनसंकुलयुद्ध
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• द्विषष्टितमः: sixty-second
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्विषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Virāṭa Parva
• Goharaṇa-parvan (cattle-raid episode)
• Arjuna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the preceding events as a completed unit where force is justified only as a disciplined, duty-bound response to wrongdoing—protecting what has been unjustly seized and restoring order.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon: it announces that the sixty-second chapter of the Virāṭa Parva has concluded, situated in the cattle-raid episode and centered on the intense battle involving Arjuna.