Shloka 42
अभिमन्योर् दारुणः संमर्दः
Abhimanyu’s fierce melee amid chariot formations
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें जयद्रथयुद्धविषयक बयालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargataṃ abhimanyuvadhaparvaṇi jayadrathayuddhaviṣayakaṃ dvicatvāriṃśattamaḥ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
かくして『シュリー・マハーバーラタ』ドローナ・パルヴァのうち、アビマンニュ殺害の章段に属する「ジャヤドラタとの戦い」第四十二章は終わる。
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the war narrative as a structured moral chronicle. By formally closing a chapter centered on Jayadratha’s conflict within the Abhimanyu-slaying context, it underscores how actions in war are recorded as ethically consequential episodes, not merely events.
Sañjaya signals the completion of the forty-second chapter whose subject is the fighting involving Jayadratha, situated within the Abhimanyu-vadha section of the Droṇa Parva. It functions as an editorial/narrative closure before the text proceeds to the next chapter.