Shloka 128

Plakṣāvataraṇa–Yamunā Tīrtha and Prajāpati’s Vedī

Kurukṣetra Threshold

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें लोगशती र्थयात्राके प्रसंगमें जन्तूपाख्यानविषयक एक सौ अद्ठाईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi antargate tīrthayātrāparvaṇi logaśatīrthayātrāprasange jantūpākhyānavिषayaka ekaśatāṣṭāviṃśatitamam adhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారతం వనపర్వాంతర్గత తీర్థయాత్రాపర్వములో లోమశతీర్థయాత్రా ప్రసంగమున జన్తూపాఖ్యానవిషయక నూట ఇరవై ఎనిమిదవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्री-महाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

वन-पर्वणिin the Vana Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded; contained (within)

तीर्थ-यात्रा-पर्वणिin the Tirtha-yatra Parva (section on pilgrimage)

लोमश-तीर्थ-यात्रा-प्रसङ्गेin the context of Lomasha's pilgrimage

जन्तु-उपाख्यान-विषयकःconcerning the tale (upakhyana) of Jantu

एक-शत-अष्ट-विंशतितमःone hundred and twenty-eighth

अध्यायःchapter

पूर्णःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

लोगश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīmahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrthayātrā Parva

Logaśa (tīrtha context)

Jantu (upākhyāna title)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a teaching verse: it emphasizes textual structure—how the Mahabharata embeds ethical instruction through framed pilgrimage narratives and subsidiary tales (upākhyānas), and it formally signals the completion of a chapter within that instructional sequence.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator closes the chapter: within Vana Parva’s Tirtha-yatra section, in the episode connected with Logaśa’s pilgrimage site, the portion dealing with the Jantu-upakhyana is declared complete (chapter 128).