Shloka 39

Vipula’s Guru-Obedience, Divine Flowers, and the Peril of Others’ Oaths (विपुलोपाख्यानम्—पुष्पप्राप्तिः शपथ-प्रसङ्गश्च)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि स्त्रीस्वभावकथने एकोनचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi strīsvabhāvakathane ekonacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet das neununddreißigste Kapitel des Anuśāsana Parva des Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Abschnitts über die Dharma der Gaben, in der Darlegung, die Wesen und Neigung der Frauen beschreibt.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of giving

स्त्रीस्वभावकथनेin the narration/discussion of women's nature

एकोनचत्वारिंशःthirty-ninth (lit. one-less-than-forty)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

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 marking the close of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s instructional framework—specifically the Anuśāsana Parva’s discussion of dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) and a discourse on strī-svabhāva (women’s disposition). It signals textual organization rather than presenting a new doctrinal verse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it formally states the epic (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the internal section (dāna-dharma), and the topic (discussion on women’s nature), and then gives the chapter count as ‘ekona-catvāriṃśa’ (39th) within that framing.