Shloka 182

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत घटोत्कचवधपर्वमें रात्रियुद्धके समय श्रीकृष्णवाक्यविषयक एक सौ बयासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargata ghaṭotkacavadhaparvaṇi rātriyuddhasamaye śrīkṛṣṇavākyaviṣayaka ekaśatadvyāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「かくして『聖マハーバーラタ』のドローナ・パルヴァにおいて—とりわけガトートカチャ討伐の章において—夜戦のさなか、聖クリシュナの御言葉を主題とする第百八十二章はここに終わる。」

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Drona Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained (within)

घटोत्कचवधपर्वणिin the section on the slaying of Ghatotkacha

रात्रियुद्धसमयेat the time of the night-battle

श्रीकृष्णवाक्यविषयकconcerning the words of Sri Krishna

एकone

शतhundred

द्व्यशीतितमःone hundred eighty-second

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Śrī Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Ghaṭotkaca

Śrī Kṛṣṇa

Rātriyuddha (night-battle)

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 deliver a new doctrinal teaching; it signals that the chapter’s focus is Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s counsel given during the night-battle. The ethical emphasis is implicit: even amid chaotic warfare, Kṛṣṇa’s speech is treated as guiding judgment about duty, strategy, and restraint.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya marks the conclusion of the 182nd chapter within the Droṇa Parva, situated in the Ghaṭotkaca-slaying episode and set during the night fighting. It functions as an editorial/narrative closure indicating the chapter’s subject matter (Kṛṣṇa’s words) and its placement in the larger war narrative.