Shloka 146

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते उद्योगपर्वणि भगवद्यानपर्वणि कुन्तीकर्णसमागमे षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत उद्योगपर्वके अन्तर्गत भगवद्यानपर्वमें कुन्ती और कर्णका भेंटविषयक एक सौ छियालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi bhagavadyānaparvaṇi kuntīkarṇasamāgame ṣaṭcatvāriṃśad-adhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

अशा प्रकारे श्रीमहाभारताच्या उद्योगपर्वातील भगवद्यानपर्वात कुंती व कर्ण यांच्या समागम-विषयक एकशे छेचाळीसावा अध्याय समाप्त झाला.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

उद्योगपर्वणिin the Udyoga Parva

भगवद्यानपर्वणिin the Bhagavad-yana sub-parva

कुन्तीKunti

कर्णKarna

समागमेin the meeting/encounter

षट्six

चत्वारिंशत्forty

अधिकadditional; more

शततमःhundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Udyoga Parva

Bhagavad-yāna Parva

Kuntī

Karṇa

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?

Though this line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse, it frames the ethical weight of the Kuntī–Karṇa encounter: dharma is tested where blood-relationship, personal honor, and political allegiance collide, just before war becomes unavoidable.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text signals the completion of the chapter describing Kuntī’s meeting with Karṇa in the Udyoga Parva, situated within the Bhagavad-yāna Parva—an episode that occurs amid final negotiations and preparations leading toward the Kurukṣetra war.