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

毗湿摩波耶那（Vaiśampāyana）说道：其后，他们众人皆至于灭亡——连同其子嗣与宗亲。其意在于：虽曾竭力前往俱卢诸子（Kaurava）处劝其息争，使之安立于平等公正之道，然和解终不可得；故他们与其家族党援，尽皆战死——以此警示：顽固拒绝和合与达摩者，必招覆亡。

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.