Shloka 58

Bhūmi-dānasya Māhātmya

The Pre-eminence of Land-Gift

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि आरामतडागवर्णनं नाम अष्टपज्चाशत्तमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi ārāma-taḍāga-varṇanaṃ nāma aṣṭapañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «المهابهارتا» المباركة، ضمن «أنوشاسانا بارفا»، في قسم «دارما العطايا»، تنتهي الفصولُ الثامن والخمسون المعنون «وصفُ الحدائق والبرك». (ويستمر خطابُ بهيشما تعليماً في فضل المنافع العامة ذات الأجر—كإنشاء البساتين الظليلة للاستراحة وخزانات الماء لرفاه جميع الكائنات.)

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

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anuśāsana-parvan
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the Dāna-dharma section (parvan)
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आरामतडागवर्णनम्: the description of gardens and ponds
• Type: Noun
• Root: आरामतडागवर्णन
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• नाम: named; called
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम

• अष्टपञ्चाशत्तमः: fifty-eighth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टपञ्चाशत्-तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma-parva
• ārāma (garden)
• taḍāga (pond/tank)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals the close of a chapter in Bhīṣma’s instruction on dāna-dharma, highlighting that creating gardens and water-reservoirs is a high form of charity because it serves many beings over time—offering shade, rest, and water as enduring public welfare.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line is a concluding colophon: it marks the end of the chapter titled “Description of gardens and ponds” within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, where Bhīṣma is instructing (to Yudhiṣṭhira in context) about meritorious acts connected with giving and sustaining life.