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Shloka 114

Dvaipāyana–Kīṭa Saṃvāda: Karmic Memory, Fear of Death, and Embodied Pleasure

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि मांसवर्जनक थने चतुर्दशशाधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi māṁsavarjanakathe caturdaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Anuśāsana Parva—insbesondere im Abschnitt über den Dharma des Gebens—das hundertvierzehnte Kapitel, das die Darlegung über den Verzicht auf Fleisch behandelt. (Dies ist ein abschließender Kolophon, der das Ende des Kapitels kennzeichnet.)

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of gifts (Dāna-dharma-parvan)

मांसवर्जनकथनेin the discourse on abstaining from meat

चतुर्दशशाधिकशततमःone hundred and fourteen (114th)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma-parva (section on charity)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a chapter whose theme is māṁsa-varjana—ethical abstention from meat—placed within Bhīṣma’s broader instruction on dharma, especially in the context of dāna and righteous conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter in the Anuśāsana Parva. It formally identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the internal section (dāna-dharma), and the chapter’s topic (abstaining from meat), and then marks the chapter as the 114th.