Mahabharata 7.49.48 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 49, Shloka 48
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 49: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Lament and Strategic Foreboding after Abhimanyu’s Fall
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत अभिमनन््युवधपर्वमें आभिमन्युको रथह्दीन करनेसे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला अड़्तालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Droṇaparvake antargata Abhimanyuvadhaparvame ābhimanyuko rathahīna karaṇena sambandha rakhanevālā aḍatālīsavāṃ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ huā.
ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ദ്രോണപർവാന്തർഗതമായ അഭിമന്യുവധപർവത്തിൽ, അഭിമന്യുവിനെ രഥഹീനനാക്കുന്നതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട അമ്പത്തെട്ടാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a chapter-colophon, the passage does not teach through a direct maxim; instead it frames the ethical weight of the episode by highlighting a pivotal act in war—rendering Abhimanyu chariotless—which signals how combat can slide from rule-bound contest toward morally fraught tactics.
This is the formal closing statement for the chapter: it announces that the forty-eighth chapter of the Abhimanyu-vadha subsection within Droṇa Parva is complete, and specifies that its topic concerned Abhimanyu being made without his chariot.
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