Shloka 113

मांसभक्षण-दोषाः तथा अहिंसाया माहात्म्यम् | Faults of Meat-Consumption and the Supremacy of Ahiṃsā

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि संसारचक्रसमाप्तौ त्रयोदशाधिकशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi saṃsāracakrasamāptau trayodaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, im Anuśāsana Parva, im Abschnitt über das Dharma des Gebens, das hundertdreizehnte Kapitel, das von der Vollendung (dem Abschluss) des Kreislaufs der weltlichen Existenz (saṁsāra) handelt.

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered 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

• संसारचक्रसमाप्तौ: at the conclusion of (the topic) ‘cycle of saṃsāra’
• संसारचक्रसमाप्तौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: संसारचक्रसमाप्ति
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• त्रयोदशाधिकशततमः: one hundred and thirteenth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रयोदशाधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Vaiśaṃpāyana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not add new instruction; it frames the ethical context by marking that this chapter’s discussion belongs to dāna-dharma (the discipline of giving) and is oriented toward ending saṃsāra (the cycle of worldly rebirth).

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśaṃpāyana signals the formal close of the 113th chapter within Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, indicating that the topic treated is the ‘completion’ or ‘cessation’ of the saṃsāra-cycle.