Shloka 42

Śānti Parva Adhyāya 43 — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Stuti of Kṛṣṇa

Assembly Hymn of Many Names

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधमनिशासनपर्वमें श्राद्धकर्मीवेषयक बयालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrī-mahābhārate śānti-parvaṇi antar-gate rāja-dharma-anuśāsana-parvaṇi śrāddha-karmī-viṣayakaḥ dvicatvāriṁśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

So endet im verehrten Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Śānti Parva—im Abschnitt über königliche Pflicht und Staatsführung—das zweiundvierzigste Kapitel, das die śrāddha-Riten (Ahnenopfer) behandelt.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rajadharmanushasana Parva (section on instruction in royal duties)

श्राद्धकर्मविषयकःpertaining to the śrāddha rite

द्विचत्वारिंशत्तमःforty-second

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; concluded

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rāja-dharma-anuśāsana-parvan

Śrāddha (ancestral rite)

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 functions as a colophon: it frames the chapter as instruction within rāja-dharma (royal duty) and identifies śrāddha-karma as a subject of dharma, implying that proper governance includes upholding prescribed rites and social-religious obligations.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana marks the completion of the forty-second chapter on śrāddha rites within the Śānti Parva’s rāja-dharma instructional section; it is a formal closing statement rather than a new narrative event.