Shloka 67

Gopradāna-phalasaṃprāpti: Nāciketa’s Vision of Vaivasvata’s Realms (गोप्रदानफलसम्प्राप्तिः — नाचिकेतोपाख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये सप्तषष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi pānīyadānamāhātmye saptaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ইতি শ্ৰীমহাভাৰতৰ অনুশাসনপৰ্বত দানধৰ্মপৰ্বৰ অন্তৰ্গত ‘পানীয়দান-মাহাত্ম্য’ বিষয়ক সাতষট্টিতম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত হ’ল।

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the auspicious 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
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये: in the (chapter/section on) the greatness of giving drinking-water
• पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पानीयदानमाहात्म्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तषष्टितमः: sixty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma-parva (section)
• Pānīya-dāna (gift of drinking water)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse is a colophon concluding a chapter that teaches the religious and ethical value (māhātmya) of donating drinking water—presenting water-giving as a significant form of dāna within dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line formally closes the sixty-seventh chapter within the Anuśāsana Parva’s charity-discourse, signaling the end of Bhīṣma’s instruction on the merits of providing potable water as a gift.