Shloka 54
Subhadrā-vilāpaḥ — Subhadrā’s Lament for Abhimanyu
Droṇa-parva 55
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमन्युवधपर्वमें यृत्युप्रजापतिसंवादाविषयक चौवनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Droṇaparvake antargata Abhimanyuvadhaparvaṇi Mṛtyu-Prajāpati-saṃvāda-viṣayakaḥ catuḥpañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat.
ಇತಿ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ದ್ರೋಣಪರ್ವದ ಅಂತರಗತ ಅಭಿಮನ್ಯುವಧಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೃತ್ಯು–ಪ್ರಜಾಪತಿ ಸಂವಾದವಿಷಯಕ ಐವತ್ತನಾಲ್ಕನೇ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು.
दैपायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through argument but through framing: it signals that the narrative has treated death and creation (Mṛtyu and Prajāpati) as subjects governed by a larger moral-cosmic order, encouraging reflection on how violence and mortality are to be understood within dharma.
The narrator (Dvaipāyana/Vyāsa) closes the fifty-fourth chapter of the Abhimanyu-vadha section within the Droṇa Parva, identifying the chapter’s topic as the dialogue between Mṛtyu and Prajāpati and marking the completion of that adhyāya.