Shloka 101

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि अलम्बुषाभिमन्युयुद्धे एकाधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi alambuṣābhimanyuyuddhe ekādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im verehrten Mahābhārata, im Bhīṣma-Parva — genauer im Abschnitt über den Tod Bhīṣmas — das hunderterste Kapitel, das den Kampf zwischen Alambuṣā und Abhimanyu behandelt.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाin the great (work)

भारतेin the Bhārata (Mahābhārata)

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the slaying of Bhīṣma

अलम्बुषाby/with Alambuṣā

अभिमन्युof Abhimanyu

युद्धेin the battle

एकाधिकशततमःone-hundred-and-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣma

Alambuṣā

Abhimanyu

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?

As a chapter-colophon, the verse primarily teaches how the epic frames events within a moral-historical structure: battles are not isolated feats but parts of a larger dharmic narrative, where duty, courage, and consequence are tracked and remembered with formal closure.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line signals the end of the chapter: it identifies the larger book (Bhīṣma Parva), the relevant episode (Bhīṣma’s slaying section), and the immediate focus (the fight between Alambuṣā and Abhimanyu), concluding the one-hundred-and-first chapter.