Shloka 104

Pāṇḍu’s Marriages, Conquests, and Triumphal Return (पाण्डोर्विवाह-विजय-प्रत्यागमनम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि सम्भवपर्वणि सत्यवत्युपदेशे चतुरधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi sambhavaparvaṇi satyavatyupadeśe caturadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «المهابهارتا» الموقَّرة، ضمن «آدي بارفا»—وخاصةً في «سمبهافا بارفا»، في المقطع المتعلّق بتوجيهات ساتيافتي—ينتهي الفصل الرابع بعد المئة (104).

Word by Word

इतिthus; so; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the auspicious Mahabharata

आदिपर्वणिin the Adi Parva

सम्भवपर्वणिin the Sambhava Parva

सत्यवत्युपदेशेin the instruction (given) to Satyavati

चतुरधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Sambhava Parva

Satyavatī

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s structure; it does not itself present a new ethical teaching, but signals that the preceding material belonged to the context of Satyavatī’s instruction within the Sambhava Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces the end of the 104th chapter, identifying the larger book (Ādi Parva), the subsection (Sambhava Parva), and the topical setting (Satyavatī’s instruction).