Shloka 190

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें लोगशती र्थयात्राके प्रसंगमें ऋष्यशूंगोपाख्यानविषयक एक सौ दसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi antargate tīrthayātrāparvaṇi logaśatīrthayātrā-prasaṅge ṛṣyaśṛṅgopākhyāna-viṣayaka ekaśata-daśamo ’dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.

Translation

अशा प्रकारे श्रीमहाभारताच्या वनपर्वातील तीर्थयात्रापर्वात, लोमशांच्या तीर्थयात्रेच्या प्रसंगात, ऋष्यशृंगोपाख्यानविषयक एकशे दहावा अध्याय पूर्ण झाला.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतMahābhārata

वनपर्वकेin the Vana-parvan

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained within

तीर्थयात्रापर्वणिin the Tīrthayātrā-parvan

लोकशतीर्थयात्रायाःof the episode of the people's pilgrimage (Lokśatīrthayātrā)

प्रसङ्गेin the context; on the occasion

ऋष्यशृङ्गोपाख्यानविषयकःpertaining to the R̥śyaśṛṅga-episode

एकone

शतhundred

दशमःtenth

अध्यायःchapter

सम्पूर्णःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

लोगश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrthayātrā Parva

Logaśa

Ṛ

Ṛṣyaśṛṅga

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

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; its teaching is structural and ethical in framing: it signals that pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) and exemplary sub-tales (upākhyānas) are presented as organized vehicles for reflecting on dharma, merit, and right conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes a chapter: within Vana Parva’s Tīrthayātrā Parva, in the context of Logaśa’s pilgrimage account, the chapter whose subject is the Ṛṣyaśṛṅga episode is declared complete.