Shloka 254

जयद्रथ-निग्रहः — Jayadratha Restrained, Shamed, and Released

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत घोषयात्रापर्वमें कर्णदिग्विजयसम्बन्धी दो सौ चौवनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargata ghoṣayātrāparvaṇi karṇadigvijaya-sambandhī dviśata-catuḥpañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവ്വാന്തർഗതമായ ഘോഷയാത്രാപർവ്വത്തിൽ കർണദിഗ്വിജയത്തെ സംബന്ധിക്കുന്ന ഇരുനൂറ്റി അമ്പത്തിനാലാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीrevered/auspicious (honorific)

महाभारतthe Mahabharata

वनपर्वin the Vana Parva (Forest Book)

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained

घोषयात्रापर्वin the Ghoshayatra-parva section

कर्णदिग्विजयसम्बन्धीrelated to Karna's conquest of the quarters

द्विशतtwo hundred

चतुःपञ्चाशत्तमtwo-hundred-and-fifty-fourth (ordinal)

अध्यायchapter

पूर्यतेis completed/comes to an end

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Ghoṣa-yātrā Parva

Karṇa

Vaiśampāyana

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: it teaches by form, emphasizing orderly transmission of tradition—chapters are carefully delimited, and themes (here, Karṇa’s digvijaya) are explicitly named to preserve clarity and accountability in narration.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana signals that the chapter concerning Karṇa’s campaign of conquest, situated within the Ghoṣa-yātrā episode of the Vana Parva, has concluded; the text is about to move to the next section.