Shloka 104
Sagara’s Aśvamedha Horse Lost; The Sixty-Thousand Sons Begin the Subterranean Search
Kapila Introduced
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें लोमशती र्थयात्राके प्रस॑ंगमें अगस्त्यका समुद्रतटटपर गमनविषयक एक सौ चारवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargataṁ tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrā-prasaṅge agastyasya samudra-taṭe gamana-viṣayakam ekaśata-caturthaṁ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
अशा प्रकारे श्रीमहाभारताच्या वनपर्वातील तीर्थयात्रापर्वात लोमशांच्या तीर्थयात्रेच्या प्रसंगात अगस्त्यांच्या समुद्रतटगमनविषयक एकशे चौथा अध्याय समाप्त झाला।
लोमश उवाच
Educational Q&A
The colophon reinforces the Mahābhārata’s framing of pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) as a disciplined, value-oriented journey: sacred travel is presented as a means of purification and moral reorientation, not merely movement through places.
This is the chapter-ending colophon stating that, in Lomāśa’s pilgrimage discourse within the Tīrthayātrā Parva of the Vana Parva, the chapter concerning Agastya’s going to the ocean shore has concluded.