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Shloka 137

Adhyāya 142: Cyavana, the Devas’ Arrogance, and Vāyu’s Counsel on Protecting Brāhmaṇas

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि सप्तत्रिंशदधिकशततमो ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें एक सौ सैंतीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi saptatriṃśad-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb der Anuśāsana Parva—genauer im Abschnitt über das Dharma des Gebens (dāna-dharma)—das hundert-siebenunddreißigste Kapitel. Die Schlussformel kennzeichnet das Ende der Darlegung und rahmt die Lehre als Teil von Bhīṣmas ethischer Unterweisung über rechte Großzügigkeit.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quotation marker)

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dana-dharma section

सप्तत्रिंशत्thirty-seven

अधिकmore; additional

शततमःhundredth

ध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

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?

This line is a colophon (closing formula) rather than a new teaching: it signals that the chapter’s instruction—situated in the Dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) portion of Bhīṣma’s counsel—has concluded, emphasizing the text’s didactic framing of generosity as a key aspect of dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The discourse pauses with a formal closure: the Mahābhārata identifies the book (Anuśāsana Parva), the subsection (Dāna-dharma), and the chapter count (137), indicating the end of that chapter’s content in the Gītā Press tradition.