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

Thus ends the one-hundred-and-sixtieth chapter of the Vana Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the section known as the Yakṣa-yuddha Parva, in the episode concerning the slaying of Maṇimat. With this colophon, the narration formally closes the chapter, marking the completion of that particular ethical and narrative unit in the forest-book: a contained account of conflict involving yakṣas, framed as a concluded lesson within the larger dharma-driven epic.

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.