Shloka 59
युद्धसंग्रहः
Kurukṣetra Campaign in Summary
इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्वमेधिके पर्वणि अनुगीतापर्वणि कृष्णस्य द्वारकाप्रवेशे एकोनषष्टितमो5 ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate āśvamedhike parvaṇi anugītāparvaṇi kṛṣṇasya dvārakāpraveśe ekonaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ಆಶ್ವಮೇಧಿಕ ಪರ್ವದ ಅನುಗೀತಾ ಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣನ ದ್ವಾರಕಾಪ್ರವೇಶ ವಿಷಯಕ ಐವತ್ತೊಂಬತ್ತನೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: its ‘teaching’ is structural—showing how the Mahābhārata organizes and authenticates transmission by clearly marking the end of a chapter and locating it within parva and sub-parva. Ethically, it signals a transition toward re-establishing dharma and social order in the post-war world, with Kṛṣṇa’s return to Dvārakā as part of that restoration.
The narrator Vaiśampāyana closes the chapter by stating that this is the fifty-ninth adhyāya in the Aśvamedhika Parva’s Anugītā section, themed around Kṛṣṇa’s entry into Dvārakā. It functions as an end-marker for the episode and a guidepost for the listener/reader.