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Shloka 3312

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि आरणेयपर्वणि नकुलादिपतने द्वादशाधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi āraṇeyaparvaṇi nakulādipatane dvādaśādhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا تنتهي في «شري مهابهاراتا» من كتاب الغابة (Vana Parva)، ضمن قسم الآرانيَة، الفَصلُ الرابعُ والعشرون بعد الثلاثمائة (مع اثني عشر مُلحَقًا)، في شأن سقوط ناكولا ومن معه. وهذه خاتمةُ الفصل (colophon) تُعلِن انقضاءه في حلقة حوار اليكشا–دارما، حيث تتجلّى محنةُ يودهيشتِهيرا الأخلاقية عبر مصير إخوته.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

आरणेयपर्वणिin the Araneyaparvan section

नकुलादिपतनेin (the chapter/section) on the fall of Nakula and others

द्वादशाधिकत्रिशततमःthe three-hundred-and-twelfth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

यक्ष उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Āraṇeya Parva

Nakula

Yakṣa

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the line itself teaches no new doctrine, but it frames the ethical setting: the Yakṣa’s questioning culminates in a dharma-test where right judgment, restraint, and truth are weighed against desperation and loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending marker for the episode in which Nakula and the other brothers fall (after approaching the forbidden water), setting the stage for Yudhiṣṭhira’s encounter with the Yakṣa and the ensuing moral-philosophical interrogation.