Shloka 159

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते द्रोणपर्वणि घटोत्कचवधपर्वणि रात्रियुद्धे दुर्योधनवाक्ये एकोनषष्ट्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi ghaṭotkacavadhaparvaṇi rātriyuddhe duryodhanavākye ekonaṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im heiligen Mahābhārata, im Droṇa-Parva—im Abschnitt über die Tötung Ghaṭotkacas, während der Nachtschlacht—die Rede Duryodhanas; damit schließt das einhunderteinundsechzigste Kapitel.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so

श्रीglory; auspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'

महाin the great (work)

भारतेin the Bhārata (Mahābhārata)

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan

घटोत्कचवधपर्वणिin the sub-parvan (section) on the slaying of Ghaṭotkaca

रात्रियुद्धेin the night-battle

दुर्योधनवाक्येin (the section of) Duryodhana's speech/words

एकोनषष्ट्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-sixty-first (chapter)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

दुर्योधन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Ghaṭotkaca

Duryodhana

Rātriyuddha (night-battle)

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 moral injunction: it frames the episode within the epic’s structure, reminding the reader that the night-battle and Ghaṭotkaca’s death are pivotal narrative moments where strategy, desperation, and the ethical strain of warfare intensify.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing/marking the chapter in the Droṇa Parva during the night-fighting sequence, in the subsection dealing with Ghaṭotkaca’s slaying, and it identifies the preceding passage as Duryodhana’s words.