Shloka 153

Uttanka’s Inquiry and Vāsudeva’s Adhyātma Exposition

Guṇa–Ritual–Immanence Teaching

Devanagari script

ततस्ते निधन प्राप्ता: सर्वे ससुतबान्धवा: । श्रीभगवानने कहा--महर्षे! मैंने पहले कौरवोंके पास जाकर उन्हें शान्त करनेके लिये बड़ा प्रयत्न किया

Transliteration

tatas te nidhana-prāptāḥ sarve sa-suta-bāndhavāḥ |

Translation

Sinabi ni Vaiśampāyana: Pagkaraan niyon, silang lahat ay dumating sa kanilang wakas—kasama ang kanilang mga anak at mga kamag-anak. Ang diwa nito’y ito: sa kabila ng taimtim na pagsisikap na lapitan ang mga Kaurava upang payapain sila at itindig sa landas ng katarungan, hindi nagawang maganap ang pagkakasundo; kaya sila, kasama ang mga kapanig na kaanak, ay napatay sa digmaan—isang babalang pang-etika tungkol sa kapahamakaang dulot ng matigas na pagtanggi sa pagkakasundo at sa dharma.

Word by Word

• ततः: then/thereupon
• ततः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• ते: they/those
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• निधनम्: death/destruction
• निधनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: निधन
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• प्राप्ताः: having met/attained (death)
• प्राप्ताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-आप्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), masculine, nominative, plural, active sense with intransitive 'reach/meet'

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• स: with
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: स

• सुत: sons
• सुत: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुत
• Form: masculine, instrumental, plural, understood with 'स' as 'सुतैः' in sense

• बान्धवाः: kinsmen/relatives
• बान्धवाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: बान्धव
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Kauravas (implied by context)
• Śrī Bhagavān / Kṛṣṇa (in the accompanying Hindi gloss)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When a party rejects fair reconciliation and refuses to be established on an even-handed dharmic path, the result is collective ruin; the verse underscores the moral cost of obstinacy and the tragic inevitability of war when peace is made impossible.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports that ‘they’—understood in context as the Kaurava side—perished in the war along with their sons and relatives, after attempts at pacification and settlement failed.