Shloka 48
च्यवन-कुशिक-संवादः
Cyavana–Kuśika Dialogue on Hospitality, Service, and Lineage Questions
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ाभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें विवाहधर्मके प्रसंगमें वर्णयंकरकी उत्पत्तिका वर्णणविषयक अड्भधतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārata Anuśāsanaparvaṇi antargata Dānadharmaparvaṇi vivāhadharmaprasange varṇasaṅkarotpattikāvarṇanaviṣayakaḥ aṣṭacatvāriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
Thus ends the forty-eighth chapter, within the Anuśāsana Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, in the section on the dharma of giving (Dāna-dharma), in the context of the duties of marriage, describing the arising of varṇa-saṅkara (social and familial intermixture).
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The colophon signals that the chapter’s instruction concerns vivāha-dharma (marital duty) and the ethical-social consequences associated with varṇa-saṅkara, emphasizing that marriage conduct is treated as a dharmic matter with wider societal implications.
This line is a concluding colophon: it marks the completion of the forty-eighth chapter in the Anuśāsana Parva’s Dāna-dharma section, noting that the chapter’s topic was the description of the origin of varṇa-saṅkara in the context of marriage duties.