Shloka 160

अर्जुनागमनम्

Arjuna’s Arrival and Reunion on the Sacred Mountain

Devanagari script

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Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi yakṣayuddhaparvaṇi maṇimad-vadhe ṣaṣṭy-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

Demikian berakhir bab ke-160 dari Vana Parva dalam Śrī Mahābhārata, di bagian Yakṣa-yuddha, mengenai penewasan Maṇimat.

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'iti', 'definition': 'thus

• indicating conclusion (often in colophons)'}, {'term': 'śrīmahābhārate', 'definition': 'in the Śrī Mahābhārata (locative singular)'}, {'term': 'vanaparvaṇi', 'definition': "in the Vana Parva, the 'Forest Book' (locative singular)"}, {'term': 'yakṣa-yuddha-parvaṇi', 'definition': 'in the Yakṣa-yuddha Parva, the subsection/episode concerning battle with yakṣas'}, {'term': 'maṇimat-vadhe', 'definition': 'in the slaying (vadha) of Maṇimat

• in the episode about Maṇimat’s death'}, {'term': 'ṣaṣṭy-adhika-śatatamaḥ', 'definition': "one hundred and sixtieth (literally: 'hundredth increased by sixty')"}, {'term': 'adhyāyaḥ', 'definition': 'chapter'}]

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana (as speaker, per metadata)
• Maṇimat
• Yakṣas
• Vana Parva
• Yakṣa-yuddha Parva
• Mahābhārata

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: its 'teaching' is structural—epic narration is organized into discrete units (adhyāyas and parvans), each framed as a complete episode. The closure signals that the preceding conflict narrative has been presented as a finished moral-narrative segment within the broader dharma discourse of the Mahābhārata.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not advancing the plot but formally concluding it: it announces that the chapter in the Vana Parva, within the Yakṣa-yuddha episode, specifically the account connected with Maṇimat’s slaying, has ended.