Shloka 146
भीष्मस्य दुर्योधनं प्रति कुलहितोपदेशः | Bhīṣma’s Counsel to Duryodhana on Dynastic Welfare
इति श्रीमहाभारते उद्योगपर्वणि भगवद्यानपर्वणि कुन्तीकर्णसमागमे षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो< ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi bhagavadyānaparvaṇi kuntīkarṇasamāgame ṣaṭcatvāriṃśad-adhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Udyoga Parva and the section known as the Bhagavad-yāna Parva, the one-hundred-and-forty-sixth chapter—concerning the meeting between Kuntī and Karṇa—comes to its close.
कर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Though this line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse, it frames the ethical weight of the Kuntī–Karṇa encounter: dharma is tested where blood-relationship, personal honor, and political allegiance collide, just before war becomes unavoidable.
The text signals the completion of the chapter describing Kuntī’s meeting with Karṇa in the Udyoga Parva, situated within the Bhagavad-yāna Parva—an episode that occurs amid final negotiations and preparations leading toward the Kurukṣetra war.