Shloka 118
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 67 — गान्धर्वविवाह-समयः
Duḥṣanta–Śakuntalā: Gandharva Marriage and Succession Condition
अस्य षोडशवर्षस्य स संग्रामो भविष्यति । यत्रांशा व: करिष्यन्ति कर्म वीरनिषूदनम्
asya ṣoḍaśavarṣasya sa saṅgrāmo bhaviṣyati | yatrāṃśā vaḥ kariṣyanti karma vīraniṣūdanam ||
毗湿摩耶那说道：“在他十六岁之年，那场大决战将会发生——在那战争中，由你们诸位之分身所生的英雄，将施展惊世骁勇之业，成为摧灭敌方勇将者。”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the coming war as time-bound and purposeful: extraordinary agents, born from the 'portions' of higher beings, will carry out decisive action. Ethically, it highlights the Mahābhārata’s tension between inevitable destiny and the moral weight of karma—great deeds in war are portrayed as instruments within a larger cosmic order.
Vaiśampāyana delivers a prophetic statement that, in the sixteenth year of the person being referred to, a major war will occur. In that conflict, heroes arising from the addressed beings’ own aṃśas will display remarkable valor and slay enemy champions.