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Shloka 179

कामीकवन-समागमः

Kāmyaka Forest Meeting: Kṛṣṇa’s Visit; Mārkaṇḍeya and Nārada Arrive

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि आजगरपर्वणि युधिष्ठटिरभीमदर्शने एकोनाशीत्यधिकशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi ājagaraparvaṇi yudhiṣṭhirabhīmadarśane ekonāśītyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവ്വത്തിലെ ആജഗരപർവ്വത്തിൽ യുധിഷ്ഠിര-ഭീമദർശനത്തെ സംബന്ധിക്കുന്ന നൂറ്റി എഴുപത്തൊമ്പതാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

आजगरपर्वणिin the Ājagara-parvan (section about the python)

युधिष्ठिरभीमदर्शनेin (the episode of) the meeting/appearance of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīma

एकोनाशीत्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-seventy-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Ājagara-parvan (python episode)

Yudhiṣṭhira

Bhīma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a narrative verse; its ‘teaching’ is structural: it frames the preceding episode as part of the Ājagara (python) section and highlights that the encounter involving Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīma is meant to be read within the Vana Parva’s ethical atmosphere—testing how power and impulse are governed by dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes. The colophon announces that within the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva, in the Ājagara episode, the chapter concerning the meeting/encounter of Yudhiṣṭhira and Bhīma has ended, and it provides the chapter count.