Shloka 39

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि कर्णशल्याधिक्षेपे एकोनचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi karṇaśalyādhikṣepe ekonacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Demikian berakhir bab ke-39 dalam Karṇa Parva dari Śrī Mahābhārata, pada bagian tentang saling cela antara Karṇa dan Śalya.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the auspicious Mahābhārata

कर्णपर्वणिin the Karṇa-parvan (Book of Karṇa)

कर्णशल्याधिक्षेपेin (the section on) the reproach/taunt of Karṇa and Śalya

एकोनचत्वारिंशःthirty-ninth (one less than forty)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Karṇa

Śalya

Karṇa Parva

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?

Even in war, restraint in speech is an ethical discipline: cutting words intensify enmity, cloud judgment, and weaken collective purpose. The colophon closes a unit that implicitly warns how pride and insult can become moral and strategic liabilities.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a concluding colophon: it signals the end of the thirty-ninth chapter within the Karṇa Parva, specifically the section dealing with Karṇa’s reproach/harsh exchange with Śalya, as reported by Sañjaya.