Bhishma Parva Adhyaya 123 Shloka 119 - Mahabharata | Urdu | Vedapath

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Shloka 119

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें भीष्मजीके रथसे गिरनेसे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला एक सौ उन्नीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi antargate bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi bhīṣmajī-rathāt patanena sambandhaṃ rakhnēvālā ekaśata-unnaviṃśat-tamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے بھیشم پَرو کے اندر بھیشم وَدھ پَرو میں بھیشم جی کے رتھ سے گرنے سے متعلق ایک سو انیسواں باب مکمل ہوا۔

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतम्the revered Mahabharata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhishma Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the Bhishma-slaying section

भीष्मस्यof Bhishma

रथात्from the chariot

पतनात्from the falling

सम्बन्धम्connection/relation

रखन्तःhaving/keeping (lit. protecting/maintaining)

एकशतone hundred (as a numeral compound)

एकोनविंशतितमःthe nineteenth less one (i.e., 119th) / the one-hundred-nineteenth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīṣma

ratha (chariot)

Śrī Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣmavadha-parva

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-style closing, the verse does not teach a doctrine directly; it highlights the epic’s ethical frame by marking Bhīṣma’s fall as a moment where duty, loyalty, and the harsh consequences of war converge—reminding the reader that even the most venerable figures are subject to the outcomes of righteous and unrighteous choices in conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya signals the end of a chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva, specifying that it concerns the episode of Bhīṣma falling from his chariot—an editorial/narrative marker indicating the completion of that unit of the story.