Shloka 104
Pāṇḍu’s Marriages, Conquests, and Triumphal Return (पाण्डोर्विवाह-विजय-प्रत्यागमनम्)
इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि सम्भवपर्वणि सत्यवत्युपदेशे चतुरधिकशततमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi sambhavaparvaṇi satyavatyupadeśe caturadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Ādi Parva—specifically in the Sambhava Parva, in the section concerning Satyavatī’s instruction—ends the one-hundred-and-fourth chapter (i.e., the 104th).
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s structure; it does not itself present a new ethical teaching, but signals that the preceding material belonged to the context of Satyavatī’s instruction within the Sambhava Parva.
The narrator’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces the end of the 104th chapter, identifying the larger book (Ādi Parva), the subsection (Sambhava Parva), and the topical setting (Satyavatī’s instruction).