Shloka 104

Sagara’s Aśvamedha Horse Lost; The Sixty-Thousand Sons Begin the Subterranean Search

Kapila Introduced

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत तीर्थयात्रापर्वमें लोमशती र्थयात्राके प्रस॑ंगमें अगस्त्यका समुद्रतटटपर गमनविषयक एक सौ चारवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargataṁ tīrthayātrāparvaṇi lomaśatīrthayātrā-prasaṅge agastyasya samudra-taṭe gamana-viṣayakam ekaśata-caturthaṁ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ วนปารวะ ภายในตอนตีรถยาตราปารวะ ในบริบทการจาริกแสวงบุญของโลมศะ ว่าด้วยการเสด็จไปยังชายฝั่งสมุทรของฤๅษีอคัสตยะ บทที่หนึ่งร้อยสี่จึงสิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner, way

श्रीrevered, auspicious (honorific)

महाभारतMahābhārata

वनforest

पर्वbook/section (parva)

अन्तर्गतincluded within

तीर्थयात्राpilgrimage

पर्वsection (parva)

लोमशLomaśa (sage)

तीर्थयात्राof the pilgrimage

प्रसङ्गcontext, occasion

अगस्त्यof Agastya

समुद्रof the ocean

तटbank, shore

परupon, on

गमनgoing, journey

विषयकconcerning, relating to

एकone

शतhundred

चतुर्थfourth

अध्यायchapter

सम्पूर्णcomplete, finished

अभवत्was, became (ended)

Speaker

लोमश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Lomāśa

Agastya

Samudra (the ocean/sea shore)

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Tīrthayātrā Parva

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon reinforces the Mahābhārata’s framing of pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) as a disciplined, value-oriented journey: sacred travel is presented as a means of purification and moral reorientation, not merely movement through places.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon stating that, in Lomāśa’s pilgrimage discourse within the Tīrthayātrā Parva of the Vana Parva, the chapter concerning Agastya’s going to the ocean shore has concluded.