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Shloka 47

कालविभाग-निरूपणं तथा युद्धव्यवस्था

Time-Reckoning and Mobilization Counsel

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते विराटपर्वणि गोहरणपर्वणि उत्तरगोग्रहे दुर्योधनवाक्ये सप्तचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate virāṭaparvaṇi goharaṇaparvaṇi uttaragograhe duryodhanavākye saptacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภาควิราฏะ ตอนโกหรณะ บทที่สี่สิบเจ็ด ว่าด้วยการยึดโคของอุตตระและถ้อยคำของทุรโยธนะ จบลงเพียงนี้

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quotation marker)

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

विराटपर्वणिin the Virata Parva

गोहरणपर्वणिin the (sub-)section called the Cattle-raid episode

उत्तरगोग्रहेin (the episode of) Uttara's cow-seizure/cattle-capture

दुर्योधनवाक्येin Duryodhana's speech

सप्तचत्वारिंशःthe forty-seventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Virāṭa Parva

Goharaṇa Parva (cattle-raid episode)

Uttara (as possessive reference in 'uttaragograhe')

Duryodhana

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 itself teaches indirectly: it frames the episode as a moral unit—an act of cattle-raiding driven by ambition and pride, voiced through Duryodhana, which invites reflection on adharma (unjust aggression) and the inevitable ethical and practical consequences that follow such choices.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending colophon: it announces that the forty-seventh chapter of the Virāṭa Parva has concluded, within the cattle-raid episode, highlighting the theme of the seizure of Uttara’s cattle and identifying Duryodhana’s speech as the focal discourse of this chapter.