Shloka 127

Somaka–Jantu Ākhyāna: Desire-Driven Sacrifice and Shared Karmic Consequence

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें लोमशती र्थयात्राके प्रसंगमें जन्तूपाख्यानविषयक एक सौ सत्ताईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata-vanaparvake antargataṁ tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrā-prasaṅge jantūpākhyāna-viṣayaka ekaśatasaptaviṁśatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവാന്തർഗതമായ തീർത്ഥയാത്രാപർവത്തിൽ, ലോമശന്റെ തീർത്ഥയാത്രാ പ്രസംഗത്തിൽ വരുന്ന ജന്തൂപാഖ്യാനവിഷയക നൂറ്റി ഇരുപത്തേഴാമത്തെ അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतthe revered Mahabharata

वनपर्वकेof the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained within

तीर्थयात्रापर्वin the Tirthayatra-parvan (pilgrimage section)

लोमशin (the narration of) Lomasha

तीर्थयात्राकेof the pilgrimage

प्रसङ्गेin the context/episode

जन्तूपाख्यानविषयकconcerning the Jantu-upakhyana (sub-tale)

एकone

शतhundred

सत्ताविंशतितमःtwenty-seventh (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

सम्पूर्णःcompleted/finished

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

सोमक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrthayātrāparvan

Lomāśa

Jantūpākhyāna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon marking the close of a chapter within the pilgrimage section; its implicit lesson is the importance of tīrthayātrā (pilgrimage) and the preservation of moral exempla through embedded tales (upākhyānas) in the Mahābhārata’s narrative framework.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not a spoken verse of the story but an editorial/narrative closure: it announces that the 127th chapter dealing with the Jantū episode, situated within Lomāśa’s pilgrimage-context in the Tīrthayātrāparvan of the Vana Parva, has concluded.