sOptikaparvan | स्Oप्तिकपर्वन् | sOptikaparvan
sOptika—parvan | स्Oप्तिक—पर्वन् | n. N. of the 10th book of the Mahā-bhārata (describing how the three surviving Kuru warriors, Aśvatthāman, Kṛta-varman, and Kṛpa, after the destruction of their army, attacked the camp of the Pāṇḍavas by night and murdered them while asleep; the whole Pāṇḍava army was thus destroyed, except the five Pāṇḍu princes themselves, who, with Kṛṣṇa and Sātyaki, were stationed at some distance from the camp).