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Shloka 119

नारदकथितं माधव्याः तपश्चर्या–ययातेः स्वर्गविचारः | Nārada on Mādhavī’s Asceticism and the Scrutiny of Yayāti in Heaven

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते उद्योगपर्वणि भगवद्यानपर्वणि गालवचरिते एकोनविंशत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi bhagavadyānaparvaṇi gālavacarite ekonaviṁśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Так, в «Шри Махабхарате», в «Удьога-парве», в разделе «Бхагавад-яна» (о божественной миссии), в повествовании о Галаве, оканчивается сто девятнадцатая глава. Это колофон, отмечающий завершение главы и помещающий её в широкий нравственно-повествовательный контекст «Удьога-парвы», где, несмотря на приближение войны, на первый план выдвинуты стремление к миру, долг и праведное поведение.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quote marker)

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

उद्योगपर्वणिin the Udyoga-parvan

भगवद्यानपर्वणिin the Bhagavad-yāna-parvan

गालवचरितेin the episode (account) of Gālava

एकोनविंशत्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-nineteenth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Udyoga Parva

Bhagavad-yāna Parva

Galava

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 teaches indirectly by emphasizing textual and ethical framing—placing Galava’s episode within the Udyoga Parvan’s larger concern with right conduct, negotiation, and the moral weight of decisions made on the brink of conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes. The colophon identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Udyoga Parvan), the sub-section (Bhagavad-yāna), and the episode (Galava’s story), and states that this is the 119th chapter.