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Shloka 231

Dvārakā’s Distress and the Saubha Engagement (द्वारकाव्यग्रता तथा सौभयुद्धम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि अर्जुनाभिगमनपर्वणि सौभवधोपाख्याने एकविंशो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi arjunābhigamanaparvaṇi saubhavadho'pākhyāne ekaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ಇತಿ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ವನಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ, ‘ಅರ್ಜುನಾಭಿಗಮನಪರ್ವ’ ವಿಭಾಗದೊಳಗಿನ ‘ಸೌಭವಧೋಪಾಖ್ಯಾನ’ದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದನೇ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Forest Book (Vana Parva)

अर्जुनाभिगमनपर्वणिin the section (parvan) called 'Arjuna's approach/arrival'

सौभवधोपाख्यानेin the sub-tale called 'the slaying of Saubha'

एकविंशःtwenty-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Arjuna

Saubha

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse; its function is to preserve textual order and context, reminding the reader that episodes are nested within larger narrative units—an ethical-literary discipline of attentive reading and accurate transmission.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes here. The colophon identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Vana Parva), the internal section (Arjuna’s approach/arrival), and the embedded tale (Saubha-vadha), signaling that the twenty-first chapter has ended.