Mahabharata 7.201.199 — Drona Parva, Adhyaya 201, Shloka 199

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते द्रोणपर्वणि नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागे नवनवत्यधिकशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvaṇi nārāyaṇāstramokṣaparvaṇi pāṇḍavasainyāstratyāge navanavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

อิติ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ตอนทฺโรณปัรวะ ในบทว่าด้วยการปล่อยนารายณอัสตรา บทที่หนึ่งร้อยเก้าสิบเก้า ว่าด้วยการที่กองทัพปาณฑพวางอาวุธ ก็สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• द्रोणपर्वणि: in the Droṇa-parvan
• द्रोणपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्रोणपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि: in the section (parvan) on the discharge of the Nārāyaṇa-weapon
• नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नारायणास्त्रमोक्षपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागे: in (the topic of) the Pāṇḍava army's abandonment of weapons
• पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्यागे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डवसैन्यास्त्रत्याग
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• नवनवत्यधिकशततमः: the one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नवनवत्यधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Droṇa Parva
• Nārāyaṇāstra
• Pāṇḍava army

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon points to an ethical lesson embedded in the episode: when confronted with an overwhelming, divinely charged force, dharma may require restraint and the abandonment of violent response. Survival and righteousness can depend on self-control rather than escalation.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon for the section describing the release of the Nārāyaṇa weapon and the Pāṇḍava host’s response—laying down their weapons (astratyāga) as the appropriate means to neutralize the weapon’s effect.