Shloka 42

Śānti Parva Adhyāya 43 — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Stuti of Kṛṣṇa

Assembly Hymn of Many Names

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधमनिशासनपर्वमें श्राद्धकर्मीवेषयक बयालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrī-mahābhārate śānti-parvaṇi antar-gate rāja-dharma-anuśāsana-parvaṇi śrāddha-karmī-viṣayakaḥ dvicatvāriṁśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في المهابهاراتا الموقَّرة، ضمن «شانتِي پَرفا»—وخاصةً في قسم واجبات الملك وأصول الحكم—يُختَتم الفصل الثاني والأربعون المتعلّق بطقوس الشرادّها (تقديم القرابين للأجداد).

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rajadharmanushasana Parva (section on instruction in royal duties)

श्राद्धकर्मविषयकःpertaining to the śrāddha rite

द्विचत्वारिंशत्तमःforty-second

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; concluded

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rāja-dharma-anuśāsana-parvan

Śrāddha (ancestral rite)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon: it frames the chapter as instruction within rāja-dharma (royal duty) and identifies śrāddha-karma as a subject of dharma, implying that proper governance includes upholding prescribed rites and social-religious obligations.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana marks the completion of the forty-second chapter on śrāddha rites within the Śānti Parva’s rāja-dharma instructional section; it is a formal closing statement rather than a new narrative event.