Shloka 198

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वमें धृष्टदुम्न और सात्यकिका क्रोधविषयक एक सौ अद्ठदानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata-nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi dhṛṣṭadyumna-sātyakyoḥ krodhaviṣayaka ekaśatāṣṭanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-eighth chapter of the Drona Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the section on the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa weapon—dealing with the wrath of Dhṛṣṭadyumna and Sātyaki.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Drona Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded; contained (within)

नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the discharge of the Narayana-weapon

धृष्टद्युम्नDhrishtadyumna

सात्यकिःSatyaki

क्रोधविषयकःconcerning anger; about wrath

एकशतone hundred

अष्टनवतितमःeighty-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; concluded

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Śrī Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Dhṛṣṭadyumna

Sātyaki

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?

Even in a war narrative, the text highlights krodha (anger) as a morally charged force: it can drive heroic action but also threatens discernment and dharma. The chapter-ending notice foregrounds this ethical theme as the subject of the episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a colophon-style closing line: Sañjaya signals that the chapter within Droṇa Parva—under the episode concerning the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa weapon—has concluded, and that its focus was the anger of Dhṛṣṭadyumna and Sātyaki.