Shloka 68

Uttarā-vilāpaḥ and Kṛṣṇasya satya-vacanenābhi-mañyu-jasyābhijīvanam

Uttarā’s Lament and the Revival of Abhimanyu’s Son by Krishna’s Truth-Act

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्वमेधिके पर्वणि अनुगीतापर्वणि उत्तरावाक्ये अष्टषष्टितमो<5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्माभारत आश्वमेधिकपर्वके अन्तर्गत अनुगीतापर्वमें उत्तराका वाक्यविषयक अड़सठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate āśvamedhike parvaṇi anugītāparvaṇi uttarāvākye aṣṭaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Aśvamedhika-Parva, im Anugītā-Abschnitt, das achtundsechzigste Kapitel, das die abschließende Rede (uttaravākya) betrifft. (Dies ist ein Kolophon zur Kennzeichnung des Kapitelabschlusses, kein erzählender Vers.)

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

आश्वमेधिकेin the Ashvamedhika

पर्वणिin the book/section (parvan)

अनुगीतापर्वणिin the Anugita sub-parvan

उत्तरावाक्येin the concluding statement/colophon

अष्टषष्टितमःsixty-eighth (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Śrī Mahābhārata

Āśvamedhika Parva

Anugītāparvan

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line does not present a new teaching; it is a colophon that formally closes the chapter in the Anugītā section, signaling completion of the concluding discourse (uttarāvākya) for this adhyāya.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator’s frame (attributed to Vaiśampāyana) marks the end of the sixty-eighth chapter within the Aśvamedhika Parva’s Anugītā portion; it functions as an editorial/structural closure rather than an event in the story.