Shloka 142

Nakula–Śakuni Duel and the Night Battle; Śikhaṇḍin–Kṛpa Engagement (नकुल-शकुनियुद्धं तथा रात्रियुद्धवर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि जयद्रथवधपर्वणि भूरिश्रवोबाहुच्छेदे द्विचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत जयद्रथवधपर्वमें भूरिश्रवाकी भुजाका उच्छेदविषयक एक सौ बयालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi jayadrathavadhaparvaṇi bhūriśravobāhucchede dvi-catvāriṃśad-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

サンジャヤは語った。かくして『聖マハーバーラタ』ドローナ・パルヴァ、ジャヤドラタ討伐の章段において、ブーリシュラヴァスの腕切断を扱う第百四十二章は終わった。この結語は当該挿話の終幕を告げ、戦の暴力が取り返しのつかぬ行為へと帰結し、憤怒と誓願と戦場の必然の狭間で、正しき行いとは何かを問いかけることを際立たせる。

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Drona Parva

जयद्रथवधपर्वणिin the Jayadratha-slaying sub-parva

भूरिश्रवोबाहुच्छेदेin (the episode of) the cutting off of Bhurisravas' arm

द्विचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमःone hundred forty-second

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Jayadratha

Bhūriśravas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames an episode whose ethical weight lies in how battlefield actions—especially irreversible violence—must be judged against dharma, restraint, and the rules of combat, even when driven by vows and fury.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the closing formula of the chapter: Sañjaya signals that the chapter within Droṇa Parva, in the Jayadratha-slaying section, specifically the episode about severing Bhūriśravas’s arm, has concluded.