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Shloka 314

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि आरणेयपर्वणि नकुलादिजीवनादिवरप्राप्तौ चतुर्दशाधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi āraṇeyaparvaṇi nakulādijīvanādivaraprāptau caturdaśādhikatrizatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Vana Parva—insbesondere im Āraṇeya-Abschnitt—das 314. Kapitel, das von der Erlangung von Gaben handelt, wie der Wiedergewinnung des Lebens, beginnend mit Nakula.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

आरणेयपर्वणिin the Āraṇeya-parvan (section of the Forest Book)

नकुलादिजीवनादिवरप्राप्तौin (the episode of) obtaining the boon such as the revival of Nakula and others

चतुर्दशाधिकत्रिशततमःthe three-hundred-and-fourteenth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Āraṇeya Parva

Nakula

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?

As a chapter-ending colophon, the verse signals that the preceding narrative culminates in the granting of boons—especially the restoration of life beginning with Nakula—highlighting that life-restoring grace is connected to dharmic discernment, truthful speech, and ethically sound choices.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing line of the chapter in the Vana Parva’s Āraṇeya section, identifying the chapter’s theme as the attainment of boons such as the reviving of Nakula (and others), and marking the completion of that episode.