Shloka 138

Brahmapūjā-kāraṇa-prśnaḥ and Keśava–Viṣvaksena-stuti

Question on Brahmin veneration; hymn on Kṛṣṇa as cosmic order

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि अष्टत्रिंयधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi aṣṭatriṃśyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet das hundertachtunddreißigste Kapitel (138) im Abschnitt Dāna-dharma des Anuśāsana Parva des heiligen Mahābhārata.

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anushasana Parva
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the section (parvan) on the dharma of giving
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अष्टत्रिंशत्: thirty-eight
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टत्रिंशत्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: more; in excess
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शततमः: the hundredth (ordinal)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon marking the close of a chapter within the Dāna-dharma (charity) teachings of the Anuśāsana Parva; it signals that the preceding discourse belongs to the ethical instruction on giving.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it formally states the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the subsection (Dāna-dharma), and the chapter count, serving as an editorial/narrative boundary rather than a new spoken instruction.