Shloka 48

अर्जुन-कर्ण-सङ्ग्रामः

Arjuna–Karna Engagement in the Cattle-Raid Aftermath

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत विराटपर्वके अन्तर्गत गोहरणपर्वमें उत्तरगोग्रहके समय कर्णके आत्मप्रशंसापूर्ण वचनसम्बन्धी अड़तालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvake antargata-goharaṇaparvaṇi uttaragograha-samaye karṇasya ātmapraśaṁsā-pūrṇa-vacana-sambandhī aṣṭacatvāriṁśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత విరాటపర్వాంతర్గత గోహరణపర్వంలో ఉత్తరగోగ్రహ సందర్భమున కర్ణుని ఆత్మప్రశంసాపూర్వక వచనములకు సంబంధించిన నలభై ఎనిమిదవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

विराटपर्वणिin the Virāṭa-parvan

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (within)

गोहरणपर्वणिin the Go-haraṇa-parvan (cattle-raid section)

उत्तरगोग्रहसमयेat the time of Uttara's cow-seizure episode

कर्णस्यof Karṇa

आत्मप्रशंसापूर्णवचनसम्बन्धीrelating to words full of self-praise

अष्टचत्वारिंशत्तमःforty-eighth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Karṇa

Mahābhārata

Virāṭa Parva

Goharaṇa Parva

Uttara-gograha (northern cattle-seizure episode)

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?

The colophon signals that the chapter’s focus is Karṇa’s boastful self-praise during a martial episode, implicitly contrasting valor with the ethical danger of pride (ahaṅkāra) and competitive speech that inflames conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an end-of-chapter notice stating that the forty-eighth chapter—about Karṇa’s self-laudatory words spoken during the northern cattle-seizure in the Goharaṇa section of the Virāṭa Parva—has concluded.