Shloka 48
Kurukṣetra-anudarśanam — Rāma-hradāḥ and the Question of Kṣatra Continuity (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय ४८)
इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि रामोपाख्याने&डष्टचत्वारिंशो5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वरमें परशुरामके उपाख्यानका आरम्भविषयक अड़तालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi rāmopākhyāne ’ṣṭacatvāriṃśo ’dhyāyaḥ |
ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ಶಾಂತಿಪರ್ವದೊಳಗಿನ ರಾಜಧರ್ಮಾನುಶಾಸನಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಮೋಪಾಖ್ಯಾನ (ಪರಶುರಾಮೋಪಾಖ್ಯಾನ) ಆರಂಭವಿಷಯಕ ನಲವತ್ತೆಂಟನೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement; its function is to frame the teaching context—royal dharma (rājadharma) as an authoritative instruction (anuśāsana)—and to signal a transition to an illustrative episode (upākhyāna), namely the Paraśurāma narrative, which will serve as a moral-political example within the discourse on kingship.
The chapter concludes, and the text announces that within Śānti Parvan’s rājadharma instruction section, the forty-eighth chapter has ended and the Rāma (Paraśurāma) episode is beginning. It is a structural marker used by the tradition to organize the epic’s internal divisions.