Shloka 295

Yakṣa-saṃvāda: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Interrogation at the Guarded Water

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वणि सावितरयुपाख्याने पज्चनवत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi pativratāmāhātmyaparvaṇi sāvitryupākhyāne pañcanavatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

亦即：在尊贵的《摩诃婆罗多》〈林居篇〉之中，于颂扬贞顺妻德（pativratā）之章，在娑维特丽支叙里，第二百九十五章终。

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

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

• महाभारते: in the Mahābhārata
• 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

• पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वणि: in the section on the greatness of devoted wives
• पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सावित्र्युपाख्याने: in the tale of Sāvitrī
• सावित्र्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सावित्र्युपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चनवत्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-ninety-fifth (chapter)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चनवतिअधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

इुमत्सेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Pativratā-māhātmya-parvan
• Sāvitrī (Sāvitrī-upākhyāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals that the Sāvitrī episode is presented as a dharmic exemplar: the narrative’s ethical emphasis is the glory of pativratā-dharma—steadfast fidelity, moral resolve, and devotion upheld as a source of spiritual power and social virtue.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line is not part of the spoken dialogue but an editorial/recensional closing formula. It marks the end of an adhyāya within the Vana Parva, specifically within the Pativratā-māhātmya section and the embedded tale (upākhyāna) of Sāvitrī.