Shloka 67

Ādi Parva, Adhyāya 68 — Sarvadamana’s Childhood and Śakuntalā’s Claim at Court

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत आदिपव॑ीके अन्तर्गत सम्भवपर्वमें अंशावतरणयमाप्तिविषयक सड़सठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārata Ādiparvaṇi antar-gata Sambhavaparvaṇi aṁśāvataraṇa-yamāpti-viṣayakaḥ saptāṣaṣṭitamaḥ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.

Translation

So endet das siebenundsechzigste Kapitel des Sambhava Parva innerhalb des Ādi Parva des Śrī Mahābhārata, das vom Herabstieg göttlicher Anteile (verkörperter Teile) und vom Abschluss des Yama betreffenden Berichts handelt. Dieses Schlusskolophon kennzeichnet das Ende einer thematischen Einheit und rahmt die Erzählung als bewusstes Entfalten kosmischer Ordnung und moralischer Kausalität.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

आदिपर्वणिin the Ādi-parvan

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (within)

सम्भवपर्वणिin the Sambhava-parvan

अंशावतरणयमाप्तिविषयकःconcerning the descent of portions (incarnations) and the attainment of Yama

सप्तषष्टितमःsixty-seventh

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīmahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Sambhava Parva

Yama

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?

As a colophon, the verse primarily teaches how the epic frames events as ordered and purposeful: divine portions descend into the world and narrative episodes reach completion, underscoring moral causality and cosmic governance rather than random history.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker marks the formal end of the sixty-seventh chapter in the Sambhava Parva within the Ādi Parva, indicating that the section concerning aṁśāvataraṇa (descent of portions) and the completion of the Yama-related account has concluded.