Shloka 92

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि वामदेवगीतासु द्विनवतितमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi vāmadevagītāsu dvinavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारताच्या शान्तिपर्वातील राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वात वामदेव-गीतांतील ब्याण्णवावा अध्याय समाप्त।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rājadharmānuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in royal duties)

वामदेवगीतासुamong/in the songs (gītās) of Vāmadeva

द्विनवतितमःninety-second

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वामदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Vāmadeva

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 doctrinal verse: it marks the close of a chapter within the Vāmadeva Gītā material situated in the Rājadharma instruction of the Śānti Parva, framing the surrounding content as guidance on righteous rule and ethical governance.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: the speaker’s discourse (attributed to Vāmadeva) reaches a formal endpoint, and the Mahābhārata’s internal editorial formula identifies the larger book (Śānti Parva), the thematic subdivision (instruction on royal dharma), and the chapter number just completed.