Shloka 307
इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि कुण्डलाहरणपर्वणि सूर्यकुन्तीसमागमे सप्ताधिकत्रिशततमो<थध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi kuṇḍalāharaṇaparvaṇi sūrya-kuntī-samāgame saptādhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva, in the section concerning the taking away of the earrings, at the episode of the meeting between Sūrya and Kuntī, ends the three-hundred-and-seventeenth chapter. The colophon signals the close of a narrative unit that frames questions of duty, secrecy, and the moral weight of divine-human encounters.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse primarily teaches how the epic frames moral inquiry through structured narrative units: episodes like the Sūrya–Kuntī encounter and the Kuṇḍalāharaṇa theme foreground the ethical tension between personal duty, social consequence, and the lasting impact of choices made under extraordinary circumstances.
This line is not a plot event but an editorial/narrative closure: it marks the end of the chapter within Vana Parva, specifying that the chapter belongs to the Kuṇḍalāharaṇa section and the episode of the meeting between Sūrya and Kuntī, as recited by Vaiśampāyana.