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Shloka 303

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि कुण्डलाहरणपर्वणि पृथोपदेशे त्रयधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi kuṇḍalāharaṇaparvaṇi pṛthopadeśe trayadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇతి శ్రీమహాభారత వనపర్వములో ‘కుండలాహరణపర్వం’లోని ‘పృథోపదేశ’ ప్రసంగములో మూడు వందల మూడవ అధ్యాయము సమాప్తమైంది. ఈ ఉపసంహారం ఒక కథాఖండం పూర్తయినదని సూచించి, పృథా ఉపదేశముచే కర్మఫల నియమమును నైతిక బోధగా ప్రతిపాదిస్తుంది।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

कुण्डलाहरणपर्वणिin the 'Kundala-haraṇa' sub-parvan (episode of taking the earrings)

पृथोपदेशेin the instruction/advice to Pṛthā (Kuntī)

त्रयधिकत्रिशततमःthree-hundred-and-third

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Kuṇḍalāharaṇa-parvan

Pṛthā (Kuntī)

kuṇḍala (earrings)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a teaching verse: it marks the end of a chapter and situates it within the Mahābhārata’s larger structure. By naming 'Pṛthā’s counsel' and the 'taking of the earrings' episode, it frames the preceding material as moral instruction (upadeśa) embedded in narrative consequence.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse does not advance the plot directly; it closes the chapter by identifying the work (Mahābhārata), the major book (Vana Parva), the sub-episode (Kuṇḍalāharaṇa-parvan), and the thematic unit (Pṛthā’s counsel), and by stating that this is the 303rd chapter.