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Shloka 159

Adhyāya 160: Dikpāla-Cosmography and the Sun’s Kālacakra (दिक्पाल-विश्ववर्णनम् तथा आदित्यस्य कालचक्रम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि यक्षयुद्धपर्वणि आर्टिषेणयुधिष्ठटिरसंवादे एकोनषष्ट्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi yakṣayuddhaparvaṇi ārtiṣeṇayudhiṣṭhirasaṃvāde ekonaṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im heiligen Mahābhārata, im Vana Parva, im Abschnitt über den Kampf mit dem Yakṣa, im Gespräch zwischen Ārtiṣeṇa und Yudhiṣṭhira, das hundertneunundfünfzigste (159.) Kapitel.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

यक्षयुद्धपर्वणिin the Yakṣa-battle section

आर्तिषेणयुधिष्ठिरसंवादेin the dialogue of Ārtiṣeṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira

एकोनषष्ट्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-fifty-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

आर्शिषिण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Yakṣa-yuddha Parva (section/episode)

Ārtiṣeṇa

Yudhiṣṭhira

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a teaching verse: it identifies the textual location (Vana Parva), the episode (Yakṣa-yuddha), and the interlocutors (Ārtiṣeṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira), emphasizing careful transmission and contextual reading of dharma-discourse within the epic.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative content is not advanced here; the line simply closes and labels the chapter, indicating that the preceding material belonged to the Yakṣa-related episode and took the form of a dialogue between Ārtiṣeṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira.