Shloka 73

Rathaghoṣa–Saṃjñāna: Damayantī’s Inference and the Dispatch of the Envoy (Āraṇyaka-parva, Adhyāya 71)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि ऋतुपर्णविदर्भगमने एकसप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi nalopākhyānaparvaṇi ṛtupārṇavidarbhagamane ekasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

இதி ஸ்ரீமகாபாரதே வனபர்வணி நலோபாக்யானபர்வணி ருதுபர்ண-விதர்பகமனே ஏகஸப்ததிதமோऽத்தியாயः।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana Parva (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि: in the Nala-upakhyana section
• नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नलोपाख्यानपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• ऋतुपर्णविदर्भगमने: in (the episode of) Rituparna's going to Vidarbha
• ऋतुपर्णविदर्भगमने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऋतुपर्णविदर्भगमन
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकसप्ततितमः: seventy-first
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकसप्तति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ऋचुपर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Nalopākhyāna
• Ṛtupārṇa
• Vidarbha

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the end of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s internal structure. Its value is pedagogical: it teaches careful textual orientation—knowing the parva, sub-episode, and narrative setting—so the reader can track context and continuity.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse does not advance the plot directly; it signals that the seventy-first chapter concludes at the point describing Ṛtupārṇa’s journey to Vidarbha within the Nalopākhyāna episode of the Vana Parva.