Shloka 47
Karṇa-vadha-pratyaya: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Verification of Karṇa’s Fall (कर्णवध-प्रत्ययः)
इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे सप्तचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi saṅkulayuddhe saptacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Karṇa Parva, the chapter on the confused and densely entangled battle comes to an end—this being the forty-seventh chapter.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; its ethical force is contextual: it highlights that the war has entered a phase of saṅkula—confusion and entanglement—where discernment of dharma becomes harder, and the consequences of choices made amid chaos intensify.
Sañjaya’s report reaches a chapter boundary. The text formally closes the section describing the saṅkulayuddha within the Karṇa Parva, signaling the end of one narrated episode of the battle before the next chapter begins.