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Shloka 102

विन्ध्यवृद्धिनिवारणम् — The Restraint of the Vindhya

Agastya’s Injunction

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि तीर्थयात्रापर्वणि लोमशतीर्थयात्रायां विष्णुस्तवे दयधिकशततमो<्थध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrāyāṃ viṣṇustave dvyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇతి శ్రీమహాభారతం వనపర్వంలోని తీర్థయాత్రాపర్వంలో, లోమశుని తీర్థయాత్రా ప్రసంగంలో, విష్ణుస్తవ విషయక నూట రెండవ (ద్వ్యధికశతతమ) అధ్యాయం సమాప్తం.

Word by Word

itithus

śrīmahābhāratein the Śrī-Mahābhārata

vanaparvaṇiin the Vana Parva

tīrthayātrāparvaṇiin the Tīrthayātrā Parva (section)

lomaśatīrthayātrāyāmin (the narration of) Lomaśa's pilgrimage

viṣṇustavein the hymn to Viṣṇu

dayādhikaśatatamaḥthe one-hundred-and-somethingth (chapter), with an additional count (as per colophon numbering)

adhyāyaḥchapter

Speaker

लोगश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrtha-yātrā Parva

Lomāśa

Viṣṇu

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the line does not teach through narrative action but frames the chapter’s ethical-religious emphasis: devotion to Viṣṇu expressed through stotra, situated within the purifying context of pilgrimage (tīrtha-yātrā), where reverence, self-restraint, and sacred remembrance are foregrounded.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing notice of the chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Vana Parva), the sub-section (Tīrtha-yātrā Parva), the episode context (Lomāśa’s pilgrimage), and the topic (a hymn to Viṣṇu), and states that this is the 102nd chapter.