Shloka 39

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्मा भारत आश्रमवासिकपव॑के अन्तर्गत नारदागमनपर्वमें श्राद्धदानविषयक उनतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate āśramavāsikaparvaṇi antargata-nāradāgamanaparvaṇi śrāddhadāna-viṣayakaḥ unacatvāriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.

Translation

এইদৰে শ্ৰীমহাভাৰতৰ আশ্ৰমবাসিকপৰ্বৰ অন্তৰ্গত নাৰদাগমনপৰ্বত শ্ৰাদ্ধদান-বিষয়ক ঊনচল্লিশতম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত হ’ল। এই উপসংহাৰে বুজাই দিয়ে যে যুদ্ধবিধ্বংসৰ পাছতো পিতৃকৰ্ম আৰু দানধৰ্ম সমাজ আৰু আধ্যাত্মিক শৃঙ্খলাক ধাৰণ কৰা কৰ্তব্য।

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner / by this way

श्रीमन्महाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

आश्रमवासिकपर्वणिin the Ashramavasika Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded / contained (therein)

नारदागमनपर्वणिin the Narada’s arrival sub-parvan

श्राद्धदानविषयेon the topic of giving śrāddha-offerings

एकोनचत्वारिंशत्तमःthirty-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted / concluded

अभवत्was / became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Āśramavāsika Parva

Nāradāgamana Parva

Nārada

Śrāddha

Dāna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The chapter’s closing emphasizes dharma expressed through śrāddha and dāna—ancestral rites and charitable giving—as sustaining obligations that preserve moral and social continuity, especially in the aftermath of great loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a colophon marking the end of the thirty-ninth chapter within the Nāradāgamana episode of the Āśramavāsika Parva, noting that the chapter’s topic concerned śrāddha-related giving.