Shloka 132
द्रौणि-पार्षतयोर्युद्धम् | The Duel of Aśvatthāmā
Drauṇi) and Dhṛṣṭadyumna (Pārṣata
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत जयद्रथवधपर्वमें भीमसेन और कर्णका युद्धविषयक एक सौ बत्तीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargataṃ jayadrathavadhaparvaṇi bhīmasena-karṇayor yuddhaviṣayakam ekaśata-dvātriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
Sañjaya sprach: So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Droṇa-Parva—insbesondere im Abschnitt über die Tötung Jayadrathas—das hundertundzweiunddreißigste Kapitel, das den Kampf zwischen Bhīmasena und Karṇa schildert.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse functions as a colophon, teaching how the Mahābhārata frames ethical and martial events within a disciplined textual architecture. By naming the parva, sub-parva, and the featured duel, it signals that war episodes are not random violence but narrated as morally consequential units within a larger dharma-centered history.
Sanjaya marks the conclusion of a chapter in the Droṇa Parva, within the Jayadratha-slaying section, whose subject is the combat between Bhīmasena and Karṇa. It is a formal closing statement indicating that the described battle episode and its thematic focus have reached completion.