Mahabharata 1.116.115 — Adi Parva, Adhyaya 116, Shloka 115

Ādi-parva Adhyāya 116 — Pāṇḍu’s Transgression of the Curse and Mādrī’s Final Charge

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि सम्भवपर्वणि दु:ःशलोत्पत्तौ पजञ्चदशाधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate ādiparvaṇi sambhavaparvaṇi duḥśalotpattau pañcadaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے آدی پَرو کے سمبھَو پَرو میں دُہشلا کی پیدائش سے متعلق ایک سو پندرھواں ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

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

• आदिपर्वणि: in the Adi Parva
• आदिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आदिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सम्भवपर्वणि: in the Sambhava Parva
• सम्भवपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सम्भवपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दुःशलोत्पत्तौ: in (the section on) the birth of Duhshala
• दुःशलोत्पत्तौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दुःशलोत्पत्ति
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चदशाधिकशततमः: the one hundred and fifteenth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चदशाधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Ādi Parva
• Sambhava Parva
• Duḥśalā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: it teaches how the Mahābhārata frames ethical history through origins and lineage. By carefully marking births and genealogies, the text prepares the reader to understand later duties (dharma), loyalties, and conflicts as rooted in family ties and inherited obligations.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter ends. The colophon states that this is the 115th chapter within the Ādi Parva’s Sambhava Parva, and that its topic is the birth/origin of Duḥśalā, thereby closing that narrative segment and indexing it within the larger epic.