Shloka 70

Go-apahāra (Cattle Theft), Go-dāna (Cow-Gift), and Suvarṇa-dakṣiṇā (Gold Fee): Karmic Consequence and Purificatory Merit

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि नृगोपाख्याने सप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi nṛgopākhyāne saptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the seventieth chapter in the Anuśāsana Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the section on the dharma of gifts (dāna-dharma), in the episode concerning King Nṛga.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्री: auspiciousness; venerable (honorific)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महा: in the great
• महा: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महत्
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• भारते: in the Mahabharata
• भारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भारत
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anushasana Parva
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the section on the dharma of giving
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नृगोपाख्याने: in the episode (upakhyana) of Nriga
• नृगोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृगोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्ततितमः: the seventieth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्ततितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Nṛga