Shloka 63

कर्णपुत्रवधः (The Fall of Vṛṣasena) — Karṇa Parva, Adhyāya 62

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि धर्मापयाने त्रिषष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi dharmāpayāne triṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Như vậy kết thúc chương thứ sáu mươi ba, mang nhan đề “Dharmāpayāna”, trong Karṇa Parva của Śrī Mahābhārata. Lời kết (colophon) này báo hiệu sự hoàn tất một đoạn của thiên sử chiến tranh, đặt mọi biến cố dưới chân trời đạo lý của dharma và con đường khó nhọc của nó giữa xung đột.

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• कर्णपर्वणि: in the Karna Parva
• कर्णपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्णपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• धर्मापयाने: in (the section called) Dharmapayana
• धर्मापयाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्मापयान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• त्रिषष्टितमः: sixty-third
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रिषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

(युधिष्टिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Karṇa Parva
• Dharmāpayāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the line does not teach through a direct maxim; it frames the preceding discourse as part of the ‘Dharmāpayāna’ theme—highlighting that even in war, events are to be read through the lens of dharma’s difficult movement and moral consequence.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing statement of the chapter, marking the end of the sixty-third adhyāya within the Karṇa Parva and naming the chapter’s thematic heading, ‘Dharmāpayāna.’