Shloka 61

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत सभापव॑के अन्तर्गत ट्टूतपर्वमें झूतक्रीडराविषयक इकसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate sabhāparvaṇi antargate dyūtapārve dyūtakrīḍāviṣayaka ekaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

এইদৰে শ্ৰীমহাভাৰতৰ সভাপৰ্বৰ অন্তৰ্গত দ্যূতপৰ্বত জুৱা আৰু পাশাখেলা-বিষয়ক একষট্টিতম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত হ’ল।

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

सभापर्वणिin the Sabha Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (therein)

द्यूतपर्वणिin the Dyuta-parvan (Gambling episode section)

द्यूतक्रीडाविषयकःconcerning the gambling game

एकषष्टितमःsixty-first

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Sabhā Parva

Dyūta Parva

dyūtakrīḍā (dice-game)

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?

As a chapter-colophon, the verse itself teaches by framing the dice-game material as a complete, morally weighty unit: gambling (dyūta) is presented as a vice that undermines self-control, judgment, and righteous governance, and its consequences ripple outward into social and political catastrophe.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing statement of the sixty-first chapter within the Dyūta section of the Sabhā Parva. It signals that the narration on the dice-game topic has reached a chapter boundary and prepares the listener/reader for the next development in the unfolding crisis.