Shloka 198

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि धृष्टद्युम्नसात्यकि- क्रोधेडष्टनवत्यधिकशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi dhṛṣṭadyumna-sātyaki-krodhe aṣṭanavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «شري مهابهارتا»، ضمن «درونا بارفا»، في القسم المتعلّق بإطلاق سلاح «نارايانا»، تُختَتمُ الفصلُ الثامنُ والتسعون بعد المئة، وهو الذي يتناول غضبَ دْهْرِشْتَدْيُومْنَ وساتْيَكِي. وهذه الخاتمة تُعلِنُ نهايةَ وحدةٍ سرديةٍ تُصوَّرُ فيها زيادةُ السخط في أتون الحرب على خلفيةِ رهبةِ السلاح الإلهي وخطره، مُذَكِّرةً ضمناً بأن الغضبَ المنفلتَ واللجوءَ إلى قوةٍ طاغيةٍ يحملان وزناً أخلاقياً جسيماً حتى في ساحة القتال.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan (book/section)

नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणिin the section on the discharge (release) of the Nārāyaṇa-weapon

धृष्टद्युम्नसात्यकि-क्रोधेin (the topic of) the wrath of Dhṛṣṭadyumna and Sātyaki

अष्टनवत्यधिकशततमःone hundred and ninety-eighth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Dhṛṣṭadyumna

Sātyaki

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the line does not teach through direct instruction, but it frames the episode’s moral horizon: in war, wrath (krodha) and the unleashing of extraordinary force (divine weapons like the Nārāyaṇāstra) intensify harm and test dharma, implying the need for restraint and discernment even amid conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the closing formula for a chapter in Droṇa Parva, within the episode about the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa weapon, specifying that the chapter’s theme concerns the anger of Dhṛṣṭadyumna and Sātyaki and marking the end of that chapter unit.