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Shloka 170

और्वकृत-क्रोधाग्नि-निग्रहः

Aurva’s Containment of the Wrath-Fire

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि चैत्ररथपर्वणि तपत्युपाख्याने सप्तत्यधिकशततमो<थध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi caitrarathaparvaṇi tapatyupākhyāne saptatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, im Ādi Parva, im Abschnitt Caitraratha, in der Erzählung von Tapatī, das hundertundsiebzigste Kapitel.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

आदिपर्वणिin the Adi Parva

चैत्ररथपर्वणिin the Chaitraratha-parvan section

तपत्युपाख्यानेin the Tapati episode (upakhyana)

सप्तत्यधिकशततमःthe one hundred seventieth (chapter)

अथnow; then

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

गन्धर्व उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Caitraratha Parva

Tapatī (Tapatyupākhyāna)

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?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement; its function is to preserve textual integrity by clearly marking the chapter’s end and locating the episode within the epic’s larger moral-historical framework.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative action pauses: the speaker’s line is followed by the formal closing that identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Ādi Parva), the sub-section (Caitraratha), and the specific episode (Tapatī), concluding Chapter 170.