Shloka 84

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि सुवर्णोत्पत्तिर्नाम चतुरशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi suvarṇotpattir nāma caturaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet in der Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Anuśāsana Parva—insbesondere im Abschnitt über den Dharma der Gaben—das vierundachtzigste Kapitel mit dem Titel „Der Ursprung des Goldes“. Diese Schlussformel kennzeichnet den Abschluss von Bhīṣmas Unterweisung über die Pflicht zur Wohltätigkeit und rahmt die Erzählung als moralische Lehre über die Heiligkeit und das rechte Verständnis des Gebens.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of giving

सुवर्णोत्पत्तिःthe origin/production of gold

नामnamed; called

चतुरशीतितमःthe eighty-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Suvarṇa (gold)

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 concluding the chapter; it frames the preceding discourse as instruction in dāna-dharma (the ethical duty of giving) and signals that the chapter’s theme concerns suvarṇotpatti, the origin and significance of gold in the context of charity.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing the eighty-fourth chapter within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section. It is not a spoken verse of narrative action but an editorial/end-of-chapter marker indicating the chapter title and placement.