Shloka 41

Ahaṃkāra as the Second Creation: Brahmā’s Cosmological Instruction (अहंकार-प्राधान्येन सृष्टिवर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्वमेधिके पर्वणि अनुगीतापर्वणि गुरुशिष्यसंवादे एकचत्वारिंशो5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत आश्वमेधिकपर्वके अन्तर्गत अनुगीतापर्वमें गुरु-शिष्य- संवादविषयक इकतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate āśvamedhike parvaṇi anugītāparvaṇi guruśiṣyasaṃvāde ekacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb der Āśvamedhika-Parva—genauer im Abschnitt der Anugītā—das einundvierzigste Kapitel, dargeboten als Dialog zwischen Lehrer und Schüler. Dieser abschließende Kolophon bezeichnet den Abschluss dieser Lehr-Einheit und rahmt die vorangehende Rede als geordnete Weitergabe ethischer und geistlicher Wegweisung.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आश्वमेधिके: in the Ashvamedhika (section)
• आश्वमेधिके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आश्वमेधिक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पर्वणि: in the parva (book/section)
• पर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुगीतापर्वणि: in the Anugita-parvan
• अनुगीतापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुगीतापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• गुरुशिष्यसंवादे: in the dialogue of teacher and disciple
• गुरुशिष्यसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुरुशिष्यसंवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• एकचत्वारिंशः: forty-first
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकचत्वारिंशत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Āśvamedhika Parva
• Anugītā Parva
• Guru
• Śiṣya
• Vāyudeva (as speaker attribution)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals that the preceding material is to be understood as a completed unit of instruction in the Anugītā, framed as a guru–śiṣya dialogue—emphasizing disciplined transmission of dharma and ethical insight through teaching lineages.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the forty-first chapter of the Anugītā section within the Āśvamedhika Parva. It functions as an editorial/narrative boundary marker, indicating that the teacher–disciple dialogue segment has concluded for this chapter.