Shloka 146
Adhyāya 152 — Bhīṣma’s Authorization for Yudhiṣṭhira’s Return to the Capital (नगरप्रवेशानुज्ञा)
इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि उमामहेश्वरसंवादे स्त्रीधर्मक थने षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो< ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde strīdharma-kathane ṣaṭcatvāriṃśad-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
Ainsi, dans le Śrī Mahābhārata, au sein de l’Anuśāsana Parva—plus précisément dans la section consacrée au dharma du don—durant le dialogue entre Umā et Maheśvara, s’achève le chapitre qui expose les devoirs et la conduite des femmes : c’est le cent quarante-sixième chapitre. (Ce vers tient lieu de colophon marquant la clôture du chapitre, plutôt que de faire progresser le récit.)
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon: it does not add a new teaching but signals that the instructional discussion—framed as the Umā–Maheśvara dialogue and focused on strīdharma within the broader dāna-dharma context—has concluded for this chapter.
Bhīṣma’s discourse (as transmitted in the Anuśāsana Parva) reaches a formal chapter-end marker, identifying the textual location: Anuśāsana Parva → Dāna-dharma section → Umā–Maheśvara dialogue → exposition on strīdharma; the 146th chapter is declared complete.