Shloka 150

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि सावित्रीव्रतोपाख्याने पञ्चाशदधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi sāvitrīvratopākhyāne pañcāśad-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Anuśāsana Parva—insbesondere im Abschnitt über das Dharma des Schenkens (dāna-dharma)—in der Erzählung vom Sāvitrī-Gelübde das hundertfünfzigste Kapitel. Dies ist ein Kolophon, das den Abschluss einer Lehr-Einheit kennzeichnet und die Darstellung in den ethischen Rahmen von Spendenpflicht und gelübdegestützter Disziplin stellt.

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 on the dharma of giving
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सावित्रीव्रतोपाख्याने: in the episode called the Savitri-vrata
• सावित्रीव्रतोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सावित्रीव्रतोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशत्: fifty
• Type: Noun
• Root: पञ्चाशत्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

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

• शततमः: hundred-and-fiftieth (150th)
• 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
• Sāvitrī-vrata
• Sāvitrī (implied by the vow name)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it frames the teaching within dāna-dharma (the ethics of giving) and the Sāvitrī-vrata episode, emphasizing that moral instruction in the Mahābhārata is organized through themed sections and illustrative narratives.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is marking the end of a chapter/unit: it identifies the larger book (Anuśāsana Parva), the thematic subsection (dāna-dharma), and the specific embedded story (Sāvitrī-vrata upākhyāna), concluding the 150th chapter.