Shloka 201

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत नारायणास्त्रगोक्षपर्वमें व्यासवाक्य तथा शतरुद्रिय स्घुतिविषयक दो सौ एकवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Droṇaparvake antargata Nārāyaṇāstraghoṣaparvaṇi Vyāsavākya-tathā Śatarudriya-śruti-viṣayakaḥ dviśata-ekaḥ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat.

Translation

Sañjaya sprach: „So ist im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Droṇa-Parva — insbesondere im Abschnitt über die Verkündigung der Waffe Nārāyaṇa-Astra — das zweihunderterste Kapitel vollendet, das von Vyāsas Ausspruch und der Rezitation des Śatarudrīya-Hymnus handelt.“

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

नारायणास्त्रगोक्षपर्वणिin the Nārāyaṇāstra-go-kṣapa-parvan (section)

व्यासवाक्यVyāsa's statement

चand

शतरुद्रियŚatarudriya (hymn)

श्रुतिविषयकpertaining to the śruti; concerning the recitation

द्विशतैकःtwo-hundred-and-first

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Vyāsa

Śatarudrīya (hymn to Rudra/Śiva)

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?

Even in a war narrative, the text frames events through sacred utterance and hymn-recitation, implying that power (including divine weaponry) must be approached with reverence, restraint, and awareness of a higher moral-cosmic order.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a colophon-like closing statement: it announces that the chapter (numbered 201 in this internal count) within Droṇa Parva—focused on Vyāsa’s words and the Śatarudrīya recitation in the context of the Nārāyaṇāstra episode—has ended.