Shloka 40

Jaradkāru Encounters the Pitṛs

Jaratkāru-Pitṛdarśana

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत आदिपव॑के अन्तर्गत आस्तीकपर्वमें परीक्षित्‌-उपाख्यानविषयक चालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi antaragate āstīkaparvaṇi parīkṣit-upākhyāna-viṣayakaś catvāriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

So endet das vierzigste Kapitel der Parīkṣit-Erzählung innerhalb des Āstīka-Abschnitts der Ādi Parva des verehrten Mahābhārata.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

आदिपर्वणिin the Adi Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded; contained (within)

आस्तीकपर्वणिin the Astika Parva

परीक्षितोपाख्यानविषयकःconcerning the episode of Parikshit

चत्वारिंशत्तमःfortieth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; concluded

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

कृश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Āstīka Parva

Parīkṣit

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches how the Mahābhārata self-organizes its tradition—marking boundaries of episodes and emphasizing faithful transmission and orderly remembrance of itihāsa.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it states that the fortieth adhyāya dealing with the Parīkṣit episode, situated within the Āstīka Parva of the Ādi Parva, has been completed.