Shloka 277

Sāvitrī’s Report and Nārada’s Prognosis (सावित्र्याख्यान—सत्यवान्-गुणवर्णनं तथा अल्पायुषः पूर्वसूचना)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि रामोपाख्यानपर्वणि रामवनाभिगमने सप्तसप्तत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi rāmopākhyānaparvaṇi rāmavanābhigamane saptasaptatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ইতি শ্ৰীমহাভাৰতৰ বনপৰ্বত ৰামোপাখ্যানপৰ্বৰ অন্তৰ্গত ৰামৰ বনাভিগমন-বিষয়ক দু’শ সাতাত্তৰতম অধ্যায়।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

रामोपाख्यानपर्वणिin the Rāmopākhyāna-parvan (section on the Rāma narrative)

रामवनाभिगमनेin (the chapter/section on) Rāma's going to the forest

सप्तseven

सप्तत्यधिकexceeding seventy (i.e., seventy-seven)

द्विशततमःthe two-hundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

(श्रीरम उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Rāmopākhyāna

Rāma

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; its ethical resonance lies in situating the Rāmopākhyāna within the Mahābhārata’s dharma-discourse, where Rāma’s forest-going is remembered as an exemplar of duty, restraint, and fidelity to righteous obligation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not a spoken verse of dialogue but an editorial/recitational closure: it announces that the chapter on Rāma’s approach to (or entry into) the forest has concluded within the Vana Parva’s Rāmopākhyāna section.