Shloka 137
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 139 — Hiḍimba’s Detection and Hiḍimbā’s Approach to Bhīma
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत आदिपर्वके अन्तर्गत सम्भवपर्वमें दुपदपर द्रोणके शासनका वर्णन करनेवाला एक सौ सैतीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate ādiparvake antargata-sambhavaparvaṇi drupadapara-droṇasya śāsanasya varṇanaṁ karṇevālā ekaśata-saptatriṁśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-seventh chapter of the Sambhava section within the Ādi Parva of the sacred Mahābhārata, describing Droṇa’s disciplining and instruction of Drupada. The closing formula marks the completion of a narrative unit that foregrounds how education, authority, and wounded pride can seed future hostility—an ethical warning about the long consequences of humiliation and rivalry.
वैशग्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The chapter’s closing highlights an ethical thread: instruction and authority must be exercised with restraint, because humiliation and wounded honor can harden into lasting enmity. It points to how personal pride and the misuse of power in formative relationships can become causes of later conflict.
This is a colophon concluding the chapter: it states that the 137th chapter of the Sambhava section within the Ādi Parva has ended, and that its content concerned Droṇa’s disciplining/instruction of Drupada.