Shloka 104

Pāṇḍu’s Marriages, Conquests, and Triumphal Return (पाण्डोर्विवाह-विजय-प्रत्यागमनम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि सम्भवपर्वणि सत्यवत्युपदेशे चतुरधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi sambhavaparvaṇi satyavatyupadeśe caturadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇతి శ్రీమహాభారత ఆదిపర్వంలోని సంభవపర్వములో సత్యవతీ ఉపదేశవిషయక నూటనాలుగవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తం.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the auspicious Mahabharata

आदिपर्वणिin the Adi Parva

सम्भवपर्वणिin the Sambhava Parva

सत्यवत्युपदेशेin the instruction (given) to Satyavati

चतुरधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Sambhava Parva

Satyavatī

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

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 marking the close of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s structure; it does not itself present a new ethical teaching, but signals that the preceding material belonged to the context of Satyavatī’s instruction within the Sambhava Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces the end of the 104th chapter, identifying the larger book (Ādi Parva), the subsection (Sambhava Parva), and the topical setting (Satyavatī’s instruction).