Shloka 45
Varṇasaṃkara: Causes, Classifications, and Conduct-based Recognition (वर्णसंकरः—हेतु-जाति-आचारनिर्णयः)
इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि विवाहधर्मे यमगाथा नाम पज्चचत्वारिंशो5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें विवाहधर्मसम्बन्धी यमगाथानामक पैंतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi vivāhadharme yamagāthā nāma pañcacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ |
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Anuśāsana Parva, in the Dāna-dharma section, in the subsection concerning the dharma of marriage, the forty-fifth chapter entitled “Yamagāthā” (“Yama’s Verses”) is concluded.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals that the chapter’s instruction—framed under dāna-dharma and specifically vivāha-dharma, titled Yamagāthā—has concluded, emphasizing the text’s organization of ethical teachings within dharma.
The discourse attributed to Bhīṣma reaches a formal stopping point: the editor’s/reciter’s closing formula identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the internal section (dāna-dharma), the topic (vivāha-dharma), and the chapter title (Yamagāthā), marking the end of the forty-fifth chapter.