Shloka 79

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत सभापर्वके अन्तर्गत अनुद्यूतपर्वमें द्रौपदीकुन्तीसंवादविषयक उनासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

isa prakāra śrīmahābhārata sabhāparvake antargata anudyūtaparm̐me draupadī-kuntī-saṃvāda-viṣayaka unāsīvāṃ adhyāya pūrā huā

Translation

Ainsi s’achève le soixante-dix-neuvième chapitre de la section Anudyūta du Sabha Parva du Śrī Mahābhārata, consacré au dialogue entre Draupadī et Kuntī.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीvenerable/auspicious (honorific)

महाभारतMahabharata

सभापर्वकेin the Sabha-parvan (section)

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained (within)

अनुद्यूतपर्वणिin the Anudyuta-parvan

द्रौपदीकुन्तीसंवादविषयकconcerning the dialogue of Draupadi and Kunti

उनासीवाँseventy-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

सम्पूर्णःcomplete/finished

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Śrī Mahābhārata

Sabha Parva

Anudyūta Parva

Draupadī

Kuntī

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse itself teaches no new doctrine; it emphasizes textual discipline and thematic framing by explicitly identifying the chapter as centered on the Draupadī–Kuntī dialogue, a context where dharma is tested through suffering, family obligations, and moral response after the dice disaster.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana signals the completion of the seventy-ninth chapter in the Anudyūta portion of the Sabha Parva, indicating that the section focusing on the conversation between Draupadī and Kuntī has concluded.