Shloka 3312

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि आरणेयपर्वणि नकुलादिपतने द्वादशाधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi āraṇeyaparvaṇi nakulādipatane dvādaśādhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے ون پرَو کے آرانَیَی پرَو میں ‘نکُل وغیرہ کے پَتن’ کے بیان پر مشتمل (بارہ زائد) تین سو چوبیسواں اَدھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

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

• श्री: auspiciousness; venerable (honorific)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महाभारते: in the Mahabharata
• महाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आरणेयपर्वणि: in the Araneyaparvan section
• आरणेयपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आरणेयपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नकुलादिपतने: in (the chapter/section) on the fall of Nakula and others
• नकुलादिपतने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नकुलादिपतन
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• द्वादशाधिकत्रिशततमः: the three-hundred-and-twelfth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वादशाधिकत्रिशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

यक्ष उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Āraṇeya Parva
• Nakula
• Yakṣa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the line itself teaches no new doctrine, but it frames the ethical setting: the Yakṣa’s questioning culminates in a dharma-test where right judgment, restraint, and truth are weighed against desperation and loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending marker for the episode in which Nakula and the other brothers fall (after approaching the forbidden water), setting the stage for Yudhiṣṭhira’s encounter with the Yakṣa and the ensuing moral-philosophical interrogation.