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Shloka 199

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागे नवनवत्यधिकशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi pāṇḍavasainyāstratyāge navanavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागे नवनवत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः ॥

Word by Word

इतिthus; so

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan

नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa-weapon

पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागेin (the topic of) the Pāṇḍava army's abandonment of weapons

नवनवत्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Pāṇḍava army

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon points to an ethical lesson embedded in the episode: when confronted with an overwhelming, divinely charged force, dharma may require restraint and the abandonment of violent response. Survival and righteousness can depend on self-control rather than escalation.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon for the section describing the release of the Nārāyaṇa weapon and the Pāṇḍava host’s response—laying down their weapons (astratyāga) as the appropriate means to neutralize the weapon’s effect.