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Shloka 32

Āśramāgamanam — The Pāṇḍavas Arrive at Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Hermitage

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्रमवासिके पर्वणि पुत्रदर्शनपर्वणि भीष्मादिदर्शने द्वात्रिंशोड्थ्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate āśramavāsike parvaṇi putradarśanaparvaṇi bhīṣmādidarśane dvātriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

至此，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》中，于《林居品》之《子见章》内，叙述得见毗湿摩等人的第三十二章告终。（此为章末题记。）

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quote marker)

श्रीfortune; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

आश्रमवासिकेin the Āśramavāsika (section)

पर्वणिin the parvan/book

पुत्रदर्शनपर्वणिin the 'Son-vision' sub-parvan

भीष्मादिदर्शनेin the (topic of) seeing Bhīṣma and others

द्वात्रिंशःthirty-second

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Śrī Mahābhārata

Āśramavāsika Parva

Putradarśana-parvan

Bhīṣma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse primarily signals completion rather than giving a new doctrinal instruction; ethically, it frames the narrative as a remembered, ordered transmission—highlighting continuity of dharma through careful preservation and recollection of the past.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator marks that the thirty-second chapter of the Āśramavāsika Parva—within the Putradarśana section, focused on the vision of Bhīṣma and others—has concluded.