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Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि व्यासवाक्ये शतरुद्रिये एकाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi vyāsavākye śatarudrīye ekādhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత ద్రోణపర్వములో, నారాయణాస్త్రమోక్షపర్వములో, వ్యాసవాక్యములో, శతరుద్రీయ ప్రసంగములో, రెండువందల ఒకటవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమగుచున్నది.

Word by Word

इतिthus

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाin the great (work)

भारतेin the Bhārata (Mahābhārata)

द्रोणपर्वणिin the Droṇa-parvan

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

व्यासवाक्येin Vyāsa's utterance/statement

शतरुद्रियेin the Śatarudriya (hundred-Rudra hymn/section)

एकाधिकद्विशततमःtwo-hundred-and-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Droṇa Parva

Nārāyaṇāstra

Vyāsa

Śatarudrīya

Rudra (implied by Śatarudrīya)

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?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction but through framing: it marks the episode as part of sacred, authoritative narration (Vyāsa’s word) and highlights that the war has reached a stage where divine forces (Nārāyaṇāstra, Śatarudrīya/Rudra context) demand ethical restraint and reverence rather than mere martial prowess.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing line of the chapter: it identifies the larger book (Mahābhārata), the parva (Droṇa Parva), the sub-episode (release of the Nārāyaṇa weapon), and the embedded liturgical/narrative context (Śatarudrīya; Vyāsa’s narration), and then declares the chapter’s completion (201st adhyāya).