Shloka 139

कैलास-श्वेतगिरि-प्रवेशवर्णनम्

Approach to Śveta Mountain and Kailāsa; Lomāśa’s Warnings and Protective Instructions

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि तीर्थयात्रापर्वणि लोमशतीर्थयात्रायां कैलासादिगिरिप्रवेशे एकोनचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrāyāṃ kailāsādigiripraveśe ekonacatvāriṃśadadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «المهابهارتا» الشريفة، ضمن «فانا بارفا»—وخاصةً قسم «تيرثاياترا» (الحجّ إلى المراقد المقدّسة)—في رحلة الحجّ التي قادها الحكيم لوماشا، عند واقعة الدخول إلى نطاق الجبال ابتداءً من كايلاسا، تنتهي «الفصل التاسع والثلاثون بعد المئة». وهذه الخاتمة (الكولوفون) تُعلن انتقالاً في سرد الرحلة المقدّسة، وتُؤطّر المسير بوصفه ممارسةً للدارما: تطهيراً للنفس واقتراباً مهيباً من المواطن المقدّسة.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the auspicious Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• तीर्थयात्रापर्वणि: in the Tīrtha-yātrā-parvan (Pilgrimage section)
• तीर्थयात्रापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थयात्रापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• लोमशतीर्थयात्रायाम्: in Lomāśa's pilgrimage (narrative)
• लोमशतीर्थयात्रायाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोमशतीर्थयात्रा
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• कैलासादिगिरिप्रवेशे: in the entry into mountains such as Kailāsa
• कैलासादिगिरिप्रवेशे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कैलासादिगिरिप्रवेश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• एकोनचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमः: the one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth (lit. 100 + (40−1))
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकोनचत्वारिंशदधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Tīrthayātrā-parvan
• Lomāśa
• Kailāsa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon underscores pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) as a dharmic discipline: approaching sacred places with reverence is presented as a means of inner purification and ethical reorientation, not merely travel.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a concluding colophon: it signals the end of a chapter within the Vana Parva’s pilgrimage section, at the point where Lomāśa’s pilgrimage narrative reaches the episode of entering the mountain region beginning with Mount Kailāsa.