Ashramavasika Parva Adhyaya 14 Shloka 15 - Mahabharata | German | Vedapath

Vyasa

Shloka 15

धृतराष्ट्रस्य क्षमायाचनं तथा युधिष्ठिरे न्यासदानम् / Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Request for Forgiveness and the Entrustment to Yudhiṣṭhira

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्रमवासिके पर्वणि आश्रमवासपर्वणि धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याणे पज्चदशो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate āśramavāsike parvaṇi āśramavāsaparvaṇi dhṛtarāṣṭraniryāṇe pañcadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, im Āśramavāsika-Parva—im Abschnitt über das āśrama-Leben und den Aufbruch Dhṛtarāṣṭras—das fünfzehnte Kapitel.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

आश्रमवासिकेin (the parvan) called Āśramavāsika

पर्वणिin the book/section (parvan)

आश्रमवासपर्वणिin the Āśramavāsa-parvan (section on dwelling in the hermitage)

धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याणेin (the topic/chapter of) Dhṛtarāṣṭra's departure

पञ्चदशःfifteenth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Āśramavāsika Parva

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through instruction but through framing: it signals the epic’s ethical movement from worldly rule to withdrawal, highlighting that power and conflict culminate in accountability, renunciation, and the search for inner steadiness.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it states that the fifteenth chapter ends within the Āśramavāsika Parva, in the portion dealing with life in the forest-āśrama and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s departure.