Shloka 306

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपववके अन्तर्गत कुण्डलाहरणपर्वमें यूर्यका आवाहनविषयक तीन सौ छठाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi antar-gate kuṇḍalāharaṇaparvaṇi sūryasyāvāhana-viṣayakaḥ trīśata-ṣaṣṭhatamaḥ adhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

وهكذا انتهى الفصل السادس بعد الثلاثمائة من «ڤانا پرفا» من «شري مهابهاراتا»، ضمن مقطع «اختطاف القُرطين»، المتعلّق باستدعاء إله الشمس. وتُعلن صيغة الخاتمة تمام هذا القسم، مُؤطِّرةً السرد بوصفه حلقة مقصودة مثقلة بالدلالة الأخلاقية، تُبرز خطاب الإنسان للقدرة الإلهية وعزيمته.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतthe Mahābhārata

वनपर्वकेof the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

अन्तर्गतincluded within; contained in

कुण्डलाहरणपर्वin the 'Kundala-haraṇa' sub-parvan (earring-taking episode)

सूर्यस्यof the Sun (god)

आवाहनinvocation; calling

विषयकconcerning; pertaining to

त्रिशतthree-hundredth

षष्ठsixth

अध्यायchapter

सम्पूर्णःcomplete; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

सूर्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Kuṇḍalāharaṇa Parva

Sūrya (Sun-god)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse primarily teaches how the epic frames events within a dharmic narrative: divine invocation (āvāhana) is presented as meaningful context for human action, and the formal closure signals that the episode is to be read as a coherent moral and narrative unit.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is not a spoken dialogue verse but an editorial/narrative closing line stating that the chapter dealing with the invocation of Sūrya, within the Kuṇḍalāharaṇa episode of the Vana Parva, has ended.