Shloka 303
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपववके अन्तर्गत कुण्डलाहरणपर्वमें पृथाकोी उपदेशविषयक तीन सौ तीनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Vanaparvaṇi antar-gate Kuṇḍalāharaṇaparvaṇi Pṛthāyā upadeśa-viṣayakaḥ trī-śata-tritīyaḥ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
Thus ends the three-hundred-and-third chapter of the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva, within the section known as the ‘Episode of the Taking of the Earrings,’ dealing with the instruction given by Pṛthā (Kuntī). This closing colophon marks the completion of that chapter and frames its ethical focus as counsel meant to guide conduct amid hardship.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse itself is a colophon rather than a teaching: it signals that the chapter’s subject was Pṛthā’s (Kuntī’s) instruction, implying an ethical emphasis on counsel and right conduct, but it does not restate the content of that counsel.
No new narrative action occurs here. The line functions as an editorial/recitational closure, stating that within the Vana Parva—specifically in the Kuṇḍalāharaṇa episode—the three-hundred-and-third chapter, focused on Pṛthā’s instruction, has concluded.