Shloka 38
कुन्ती–व्याससंवादः
Kuntī–Vyāsa Dialogue on Durvāsā’s Boon and Karṇa’s Birth
इस प्रकार श्रीमयहाभारत आश्रमवासिकपव॑के अन्तर्गत नारदागमनपर्वनें युधिष्ठिरका विलापविषयक अड़तीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate āśramavāsikaparvaṇi antargata-nāradāgamanaparvaṇe yudhiṣṭhirasya vilāpaviṣayaka aṣṭātriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
इति श्रीमन्महाभारते आश्रमवासिकपर्वणि नारदागमनपर्वणि युधिष्ठिरविलापविषयेऽष्टत्रिंशोऽध्यायः समाप्तः।
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a chapter-colophon, the line does not add new doctrine but frames the ethical mood: Yudhiṣṭhira’s lament is treated as a serious moral reckoning after violence, where grief becomes a gateway to reflection on dharma, responsibility, and the costs of kingship.
This is the formal closing statement of the chapter: it announces that, within the Āśramavāsika Parva and the sub-episode about Nārada’s arrival, the thirty-eighth chapter—focused on Yudhiṣṭhira’s lament—has concluded.