Shloka 289

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि श्रीरामोपाख्यानपर्वणि इन्द्रजिद्वथे एकोननवत्यधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi śrīrāmopākhyānaparvaṇi indrajid-vadhe ekonanavatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva, in the section called the Śrī Rāma-Upākhyāna, in the episode concerning the slaying of Indrajit, the two-hundred-and-ninety-first chapter ends.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the auspicious Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

श्रीरामोपाख्यानपर्वणिin the Śrī-Rāmopākhyāna-parvan (section on the Rāma narrative)

इन्द्रजिद्वथेin (the chapter/section) ‘the slaying of Indrajit’

एकोननवत्यधिकद्विशततमःthe 291st (two-hundredth plus ninety minus one)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Śrī Rāma-Upākhyāna

Indrajit

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?

This line functions as a colophon: it teaches no direct moral by itself, but it frames the text as a sacred, carefully organized tradition, reminding the reader that the Rāma narrative is embedded within the Mahābhārata as an instructive exemplum of dharma and righteous struggle.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes: the text signals that the current adhyāya—within the Rāma-Upākhyāna of the Vana Parva—has ended, specifically the chapter themed around the slaying of Indrajit.