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Shloka 140

सहदेव-राधेय-संग्रामः; शल्य-प्रभावः; अलम्बुस-निवर्तनम्

Sahadeva and Karṇa; Śalya’s pressure; Alambusa’s interception

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि जयद्रथवधपर्वणि अलम्बुषवधे चत्वारिंशदाधिकशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत जयद्रथवधपर्वमें अलग्बुषवधविषयक एक सौ चालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi jayadrathavadhaparvaṇi alambuṣavadhe catvāriṃśad-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「かくして『聖マハーバーラタ』において、ドローナ・パルヴァのうち、ジャヤドラタ討伐の章段に属する第百四十章――アランブシャ討滅を語る章――はここに終わる。」この結語は、戦争の道義と戦略の大きな流れの中で本挿話が閉じられることを示す。そこでは決定的な殺戮が、誓願と義務（ダルマ）、そして戦場の抗しがたい奔流の帰結として描かれる。

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quotation marker)

श्रीमहाभारतेin the auspicious Mahābhārata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan (book)

जयद्रथवधपर्वणिin the Jayadratha-slaying sub-parvan

अलम्बुषवधेin (the section on) the slaying of Alambuṣa

चत्वारिंशत्forty

अधिकadditional; more

शततमःhundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Jayadratha

Alambuṣa

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal instruction: it teaches how the epic frames violent episodes within ordered textual units (parva/adhyāya) and moral causality—acts like the slaying of key warriors are presented as consequences of vows, duty, and the unfolding of fate within dharma-contested war.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Sañjaya signals the conclusion of the 140th chapter in the Droṇa Parva, specifically the episode about the killing of Alambuṣa, situated within the broader sub-section focused on the slaying of Jayadratha.