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Shloka 112

Ālasyadoṣa-nirdeśa (On the Fault of Negligence) — The Camel’s Long-Neck Exemplum

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि उष्टग्रीवोपाख्याने दादशाधिकशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi uṣṭagrīvopākhyāne dvādaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb der Śānti Parvan—genauer im Abschnitt der Unterweisung über die Pflichten der Könige (rājadharma)—das einhundertzwölfte Kapitel der Erzählung, die als Upākhyāna von Uṣṭagrīva bekannt ist. Dieses Schlusskolophon markiert das Ende des Kapitels und verortet es im umfassenderen ethischen Diskurs über gerechte Herrschaft.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the (section) Anushasana-parvan concerning royal duties

उष्टग्रीवोपाख्यानेin the episode (upakhyana) of Uṣṭagrīva

द्वादशाधिकशततमःthe one hundred and twelfth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

उड्ड उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parvan

Uṣṭagrīva

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?

This line is a colophon rather than a teaching-verse: it frames the surrounding discourse as part of rājadharma (the ethical duties of rulers) and signals that the Uṣṭagrīva episode functions as an illustrative narrative within that moral-political instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter is being formally closed. The text identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parvan), the sub-section (Rājadharmānuśāsana), and the embedded tale (Uṣṭagrīva Upākhyāna), and states that this is the 112th chapter.