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Shloka 149

Hanūmān’s Embrace, Counsel, and Promise to Amplify Bhīma’s Battle-Roar

Gandhamādana Continuation

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि तीर्थयात्रापर्वणि लोमशतीर्थयात्रायां कदलीषण्डे हनुमद्धीमसंवादे एकोनपञ्चाशदधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrāyāṃ kadalīṣaṇḍe hanumaddhīmasaṃvāde ekonapañcāśadadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവത്തിലെ തീർത്ഥയാത്രാപർവത്തിൽ, ലോമശന്റെ തീർത്ഥയാത്രാ-പ്രസംഗത്തിൽ, കദലീഷണ്ഡത്തിൽ നടന്ന ഹനുമാൻ–ഭീമസംവാദം ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്ന നൂറ്റി നാല്പത്തൊമ്പതാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीglory; auspiciousness (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

तीर्थयात्रापर्वणिin the Tīrthayātrā-parvan (Pilgrimage section)

लोमशतीर्थयात्रायाम्in Lomaśa's pilgrimage (narrative)

कदलीषण्डेin the banana-grove (Kadali-ṣaṇḍa)

हनुमत्of Hanumān

भीमof Bhīma

संवादेin the dialogue

एकोनपञ्चाशत्forty-nine (one less than fifty)

अधिकadditional; over and above

शततमःhundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीम उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrtha-yātrā Parva

Lomaśa

Kadaliṣaṇḍa (Kadali grove)

Hanumān

Bhīma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even immense power must be guided by humility and right understanding: the pilgrimage setting and the Hanumān–Bhīma encounter frame strength as meaningful only when disciplined by dharma and respect for wiser, spiritually accomplished elders.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line is a colophon marking the close of the chapter: it situates the episode within Vana Parva’s pilgrimage narrative told in connection with sage Lomaśa, specifying the location (Kadali grove) and identifying the featured discourse as the dialogue between Hanumān and Bhīma.