Shloka 47
अभिमन्युवधः
Abhimanyu’s Fall and the Battlefield Aftermath
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें ब॒हद्धलवधविषयक सैंतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata abhimanyuvadhaparvame bṛhaddhalavadhaviṣayaka saṃtālīśattamādhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat
Sañjaya said: Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Droṇa Parvan—specifically in the section concerning the slaying of Abhimanyu—the forty-seventh chapter, dealing with the killing of Bṛhaddhala, has come to its conclusion. The colophon marks the close of a narrative unit in which the relentless momentum of war is recorded with formal finality, reminding the listener that each death becomes a counted event within a larger moral and historical reckoning.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it underscores how the epic frames war as a sequence of formally recorded acts. The ethical weight lies in the reminder that violence is not anonymous—each killing is named, categorized, and preserved within a moral-historical narrative.
Sañjaya signals the completion of the forty-seventh chapter within the Droṇa Parva’s Abhimanyu-vadha section, specifying that the chapter’s topic was the slaying of Bṛhaddhala. It functions as an editorial/narrative marker closing that chapter.