Shloka 182

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते द्रोणपर्वणि घटोत्कचवधपर्वणि रात्रियुद्धे कृष्णवाक्ये द्ववशीत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi ghaṭotkacavadhaparvaṇi rātriyuddhe kṛṣṇavākye dvāśītyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, im Droṇa-Parva, im Abschnitt über die Tötung Ghaṭotkacas, das Kapitel über die Nachtschlacht und Kṛṣṇas Worte: das hundertzweiundachtzigste Kapitel.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीin the revered/auspicious (work)

महाgreat

भारतेin the Bhārata (Mahābhārata)

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan

घटोत्कचवधपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the slaying of Ghaṭotkaca

रात्रियुद्धेin the night-battle

कृष्णवाक्येin (the episode of) Kṛṣṇa's words/speech

द्ववशीत्यधिकशततमःone hundred and eighty-second

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Śrī Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Ghaṭotkaca

Kṛṣṇa

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 does not teach through a direct maxim; it signals that the preceding narrative centers on ethically fraught wartime decision-making—especially how counsel (Kṛṣṇa’s words) and strategy operate amid the moral darkness of night warfare and the intensification of violence.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an end-of-chapter marker stating that the account belongs to the Droṇa Parva, within the episode of Ghaṭotkaca’s slaying, and that the chapter’s focus is the night-battle and Kṛṣṇa’s speech; it identifies the chapter as the 182nd.