Shloka 112
एतत् ते सर्वमाख्यातं यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि । एवं मेडकथयद् राजन् पुरा द्वैपायनो गुरु:,राजन! तुमने मुझसे जो कुछ पूछा था, वह सब मैंने कह सुनाया। पूर्वकालमें मेरे गुरु व्यासजीने मुझे ऐसा ही उपदेश दिया था
etad te sarvam ākhyātaṃ yan māṃ tvaṃ paripṛcchasi | evaṃ me ’dakathayad rājan purā dvaipāyano guruḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana sprach: „O König, ich habe dir nun alles berichtet, wonach du mich gefragt hast. Vor langer Zeit unterwies mich mein Lehrer Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa) auf eben diese Weise.“
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes the reliability of the teaching by grounding it in the guru–śiṣya lineage: what is narrated is not mere opinion but a faithfully transmitted instruction received from Vyāsa, establishing authority and continuity of dharmic knowledge.
Vaiśampāyana closes a response to the king’s inquiry, stating that he has answered fully and that the same teaching was earlier imparted to him by his teacher Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa), reinforcing the framed, traditional mode of narration in the Mahābhārata.