Shloka 46
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें लक्ष्मणवधविषयक छियालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata abhimanyuvadhaparvame lakṣmaṇavadhaviṣayakaḥ chiyālīsavāṁ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Droṇa Parva—specifically in the Abhimanyu-vadha section—the forty-sixth chapter, dealing with the slaying of Lakṣmaṇa, comes to its conclusion. The closing formula marks a narrative milestone in the war account, underscoring the relentless chain of retaliatory deaths and the moral weight of violence that accumulates as the conflict advances.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This is a colophon-style closing line rather than a doctrinal verse; its implicit teaching is the ethical gravity of war narratives—each named death signals the escalating cycle of retaliation and the accumulating burden of adharma-like suffering even amid claims of duty.
The text is concluding the forty-sixth chapter within Droṇa Parva’s Abhimanyu-vadha section, indicating that the chapter’s subject matter was the killing of Lakṣmaṇa and that this chapter has now ended.