Shloka 63
Pānīya-dāna and Anna-dāna: The Primacy of Life-Sustaining Gifts (पानीयदान-प्रशंसा / अन्नदान-प्रशंसा)
इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि अन्नदानप्रशंसायां त्रिषष्टितमो5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें अन्नदानकी प्रशंसाविषयक तिरसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi annadānapraśaṃsāyāṃ triṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Anuśāsana Parva, in the section on the dharma of giving, the sixty-third chapter—praising the gift of food—comes to its conclusion.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The chapter’s closing colophon highlights annadāna—feeding others—as a highly praised form of dāna (charity), framing it as a central ethical duty within dāna-dharma.
This is not a new spoken verse but an editorial/recitational closing marker stating that the sixty-third chapter on the praise of food-giving, within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, has ended.