Shloka 74

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत आश्वमेधिकपर्वके अन्तर्गत अनुगीतापर्वमें त्रिगतोंकी पराजयविषयक चौहत्तरवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārata Āśvamedhika-parvake antargata Anugītā-parvameṃ Trigatānāṃ parājaya-viṣayaka catuḥsaptatitamo ’dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ആശ്വമേധികപർവ്വത്തിന്റെ അന്തർഗതമായ അനുഗീതാപർവ്വത്തിൽ ത്രിഗർത്തരുടെ പരാജയവിഷയകമായ എഴുപത്തിനാലാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीrevered; auspicious (honorific)

महाभारतम्the Mahabharata

आश्वमेधिकpertaining to the Ashvamedha

पर्वकेin the Parva/section

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained within

अनुगीताin the Anugita

पर्वin the sub-parva/section

त्रिगतof the Trigartas

पराजयin/with regard to defeat

विषयकconcerning; relating to

चतु:सप्ततितमःseventy-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

पूरःcomplete; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīmahābhārata

Āśvamedhika Parva

Anugītā Parva

Trigartas (Trigatāḥ)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it emphasizes closure and thematic labeling—highlighting that the chapter’s subject is the Trigartas’ defeat, implicitly pointing to the moral weight of outcomes in conflict and the narrative accounting of actions and consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker (Vaiśampāyana) signals the formal end of a chapter within the Anugītā portion of the Aśvamedhika Parva, specifying that the completed chapter treated the defeat of the Trigartas.