Shloka 54

Vāg-yuddha and Nimitta-darśana before the Gadāyuddha

Verbal Duel and Omens

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शल्यपर्वके अन्तर्गत गदापव॑नें बलदेवजीकी तीर्थयात्राके प्रसंगमें सारस्वतोपाख्यानविषयक चौवनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata-śalya-parvake antargata-gadāpavane baladevājī-kī tīrthayātrāke prasaṅgame sārasvatopākhyāna-viṣayaka catuḥpañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhūt

Translation

ဤသို့ဖြင့် «သီရိ မဟာဘာရတ» ၏ «ရှလျ ပရဝ» အတွင်းရှိ «ဂဒါပရဝ» အပိုင်း၌၊ ဘလဒေဝ (ဘလရာမ) ၏ တီရ္ထယာထရာ (ဘုရားဖူးခရီး) အကြောင်းအရာနှင့် ဆက်စပ်သော «သာရသ္ဝတ ဥပာခ္ယာန» ဟူသော ဇာတ်လမ်းကို ကိုင်တွယ်ထားသည့် အခန်း ၅၄ သည် ပြီးဆုံး၏။

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• प्रकारम्: manner/way
• प्रकारम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रकार
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• श्री: auspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महाभारतम्: the Mahābhārata
• महाभारतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शल्यपर्वणि: in the Śalya-parvan
• शल्यपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शल्यपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अन्तर्गत: included/contained (within)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तर्गत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• गदापर्वणि: in the Gadā-parvan (club-fight section)
• गदापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गदापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• बलदेवस्य: of Baladeva
• Type: Noun
• Root: बलदेव
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• तीर्थयात्रायाः: of the pilgrimage
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थयात्रा
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Singular

• प्रसङ्गे: in the context/episode
• प्रसङ्गे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रसङ्ग
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सारस्वतोपाख्यानविषयकः: concerning the Sārasvata-upākhyāna
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सारस्वत-उपाख्यान-विषयक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चतुःपञ्चाशत्तमः: fifty-fourth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुःपञ्चाशत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• समाप्तः: completed/ended
• Type: Adjective
• Root: समाप्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अभवत्: was/became
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śalya Parva
• Gadāparvan (mace episode)
• Baladeva (Balarāma)
• Tīrthayātrā (pilgrimage)
• Sārasvata Upākhyāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a chapter-colophon, the verse teaches indirectly: even amid a war-book (Śalya Parva), the Mahābhārata preserves dharma through structured narration—pilgrimage and exemplary sub-tales are presented as means to recall, transmit, and re-anchor ethical order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana signals the completion of the fifty-fourth chapter: the Sārasvata Upākhyāna has been told within the broader context of Baladeva’s tīrthayātrā during the Gadā (mace-related) episode in Śalya Parva, and the text now prepares to move to the next segment.