Shloka 190

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत आदिपर्वके अन्तर्गत स्वयंवरपर्वमें बलराम और श्रीकृष्णका आगमनविषयक एक सौ नब्बेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārata ādiparvake antargataṃ svayaṃvaraparvaṇi balarāma-śrīkṛṣṇayor āgamanaviṣayakaḥ ekaśata-nabbati-tamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

至此，《圣摩诃婆罗多》阿底篇之“自择婚”章中，叙述婆罗罗摩与圣奎师那到来的第一百九十章告终。

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतम्the Mahabharata (honorific 'śrī')

आदिपर्वकेin the Ādi-parvan (section)

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained

स्वयंवरपर्वणिin the Svayaṃvara-parvan

बलरामBalarāma

चand

श्रीकृष्णस्यof Śrī Kṛṣṇa

आगमनarrival

विषयकconcerning/pertaining to

एकone

शतhundred

नवतिninety

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/finished

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Mahābhārata

Ādi Parva

Svayaṃvara Parvan

Balarāma

Śrī Kṛṣṇa

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?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches attentiveness to textual structure and narrative sequencing, marking the completion of an episode and preparing the listener for the next stage of the story.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator (Vaiśampāyana) signals that the chapter describing the arrival of Balarāma and Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the Svayaṃvara-related episode has ended; it is a formal closure indicating a transition to the next chapter.