Shloka 47
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें ब॒हद्धलवधविषयक सैंतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata abhimanyuvadhaparvame bṛhaddhalavadhaviṣayaka saṃtālīśattamādhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat
Sañjaya said: Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Droṇa Parvan—specifically in the section concerning the slaying of Abhimanyu—the forty-seventh chapter, dealing with the killing of Bṛhaddhala, has come to its conclusion. The colophon marks the close of a narrative unit in which the relentless momentum of war is recorded with formal finality, reminding the listener that each death becomes a counted event within a larger moral and historical reckoning.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it underscores how the epic frames war as a sequence of formally recorded acts. The ethical weight lies in the reminder that violence is not anonymous—each killing is named, categorized, and preserved within a moral-historical narrative.
Sañjaya signals the completion of the forty-seventh chapter within the Droṇa Parva’s Abhimanyu-vadha section, specifying that the chapter’s topic was the slaying of Bṛhaddhala. It functions as an editorial/narrative marker closing that chapter.