Shloka 73
Rathaghoṣa–Saṃjñāna: Damayantī’s Inference and the Dispatch of the Envoy (Āraṇyaka-parva, Adhyāya 71)
इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि ऋतुपर्णविदर्भगमने एकसप्ततितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi nalopākhyānaparvaṇi ṛtupārṇavidarbhagamane ekasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
ここに、聖なる『マハーバーラタ』のヴァナ・パルヴァ、ナローパークヒヤーナ章における「ルトゥパルナのヴィダルバへの旅」の段、第七十一章は終わる。
ऋचुपर्ण उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon marking the end of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s internal structure. Its value is pedagogical: it teaches careful textual orientation—knowing the parva, sub-episode, and narrative setting—so the reader can track context and continuity.
The verse does not advance the plot directly; it signals that the seventy-first chapter concludes at the point describing Ṛtupārṇa’s journey to Vidarbha within the Nalopākhyāna episode of the Vana Parva.