Shloka 70

Go-apahāra (Cattle Theft), Go-dāna (Cow-Gift), and Suvarṇa-dakṣiṇā (Gold Fee): Karmic Consequence and Purificatory Merit

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि नृगोपाख्याने सप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi nṛgopākhyāne saptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا تنتهي الفصل السبعون من «شري مهابهاراتا» في «أنوشاسانا بارفا» (Anuśāsana Parva)، ضمن قسم «دارما العطاء» (dāna-dharma)، في الخبر المتعلّق بالملك نِرغا (Nṛga).

Word by Word

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

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

• महा: in the great
• महा: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महत्
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• भारते: in the Mahabharata
• भारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भारत
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anushasana Parva
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the section on the dharma of giving
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नृगोपाख्याने: in the episode (upakhyana) of Nriga
• नृगोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृगोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्ततितमः: the seventieth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्ततितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Nṛga

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter situated in the dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) section; it frames the teaching as part of a broader instruction on righteous charity and its consequences, presented through the Nṛga episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces that the seventieth chapter of the Nṛga episode, within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, has concluded.