Shloka 195

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि अश्वृत्थामक्रो थे पजञ्चनवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi aśvatthāmakrodhe pañcanavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ದ್ರೋಣಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾರಾಯಣಾಸ್ತ್ರಮೋಕ್ಷಪರ್ವದ ಅಂತರಗತ ‘ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥಾಮನ ಕ್ರೋಧ’ ಎಂಬ ನೂರ ತೊಂಬತ್ತೈದನೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು.

Word by Word

itithus

śrīsplendour; honorific 'śrī'

mahābhāratein the Mahābhārata

droṇaparvaṇiin the Droṇa-parvan

nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇiin the section (parvan) on the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa weapon

aśvatthāmakṛtein (the episode) done by/caused by Aśvatthāman; concerning Aśvatthāman

pañcanavatyadhikaśatatamaḥthe one hundred and ninety-fifth (chapter)

adhyāyaḥchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Aśvatthāman

Nārāyaṇa (Viṣṇu)

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?

The colophon highlights a key ethical warning of the episode: when anger becomes the motive force, even legitimate martial power can turn into destructive excess. The framing around the Nārāyaṇa weapon underscores that divine or extraordinary force demands restraint and right intention (dharma), not krodha.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line is a concluding colophon marking the end of a chapter in the Droṇa Parva. It identifies the episode as the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa weapon and names the chapter’s theme as Aśvatthāman’s wrath, indicating that the preceding narrative centered on his anger and the unleashing of a formidable astric weapon.