Shloka 98

Yuddha-yajña-vyākhyāna (The Battle as Sacrifice): Ambarīṣa–Indra Saṃvāda

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि इन्द्राम्बरीषसंवादे अष्टनवतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi indrāmbārīṣasaṃvāde aṣṭanavatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

至此，《圣摩诃婆罗多》之《寂静篇》——王法教诫之章——因陀罗与安婆利沙王对话的第九十八章告终。

Word by Word

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

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

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: in the Parvan (section) of instruction on royal duty
• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• इन्द्राम्बरीषसंवादे: in the dialogue of Indra and Ambarīṣa
• इन्द्राम्बरीषसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्राम्बरीषसंवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अष्टनवतितमः: the ninety-eighth (chapter)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टनवतितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva
• Indra
• Ambarīṣa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon: it does not add a new teaching, but signals that the chapter within the Rājadharma instruction—framed as the Indra–Ambarīṣa dialogue—has concluded, emphasizing the text’s didactic setting on righteous governance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma’s discourse to Yudhiṣṭhira is being organized into chapters; here the redactor’s closing formula marks the end of the ninety-eighth chapter of the Indra–Ambarīṣa conversation within the Śānti Parva’s royal-dharma instruction section.