Shloka 70

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि नृगोपाख्याने सप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi nṛgopākhyāne saptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet das siebzigste Kapitel im Anuśāsana Parva des Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Abschnitts über das Dharma des Schenkens (dāna-dharma), in der Begebenheit um König Nṛga.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाin the great

भारतेin the Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of giving

नृगोपाख्यानेin the episode (upakhyana) of Nriga

सप्ततितमःthe seventieth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Nṛga

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

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 marking the close of a chapter situated in the dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) section; it frames the teaching as part of a broader instruction on righteous charity and its consequences, presented through the Nṛga episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces that the seventieth chapter of the Nṛga episode, within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, has concluded.