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Shloka 145

कुन्ती–कर्णसंवादः

Kuntī–Karṇa Dialogue: Loyalty, Fate, and Constrained Assurance

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते उद्योगपर्वणि भगवद्यानपर्वणि कुन्तीकर्णसमागमे पज्चचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi bhagavadyānaparvaṇi kuntīkarṇasamāgame pañcacatvāriṃśadadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ตอนอุทยคปัรวะ ภาคภควัท-ยานะ ว่าด้วยการพบกันของกุนตีและกรรณะ บทที่หนึ่งร้อยสี่สิบห้า จึงสิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

उद्योगपर्वणिin the Udyoga-parvan

भगवद्यानपर्वणिin the Bhagavad-yāna section (sub-parvan)

कुन्तीकर्णसमागमेin the meeting of Kuntī and Karṇa

पञ्चचत्वारिंशदधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-forty-fifth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Udyoga Parva

Bhagavad-yāna Parva

Kuntī

Karṇa

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?

As a colophon, the line does not teach through argument but through framing: it marks the Kuntī–Karṇa encounter as an ethical hinge-point before war, highlighting how dharma is tested when loyalty, birth, gratitude, and public duty collide.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon identifying the setting: in Udyoga Parva, within the embassy-related section, the narrative has reached (and here concludes) the episode of Kuntī’s meeting with Karṇa—an attempt to address kinship and avert or reshape the coming conflict.