Shloka 160

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि ईश्वरप्रशंसा नाम षष्ट्यधिकशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपववके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें ईश्चषरकी प्रशंसा नामक एक सौ साठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi īśvarapraśaṃsā nāma ṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

Ainsi, dans le Śrī Mahābhārata, au sein de l’Anuśāsana Parva—plus précisément dans la section du Dāna-dharma—s’achève le cent soixantième chapitre, intitulé « Louange au Seigneur ».

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anuśāsana-parvan
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the Dāna-dharma section
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• ईश्वरप्रशंसा: praise of the Lord
• Type: Noun
• Root: ईश्वरप्रशंसा
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• नाम: named; called
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नामन्

• षष्टि: sixty
• Type: Noun
• Root: षष्टि
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: more; in addition
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शततमः: the hundredth (ordinal)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Īśvara
• Vāyudeva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals the completion of a chapter that frames dāna-dharma (the ethics of giving) within īśvara-praśaṃsā (praise and reverence toward the Lord), implying that devotion and recognition of divine sovereignty strengthen and purify charitable conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an end-of-chapter colophon: it closes the chapter titled “Īśvarapraśaṃsā” within the Dāna-dharma section of the Anuśāsana Parva, marking the conclusion of the discourse attributed here to Vāyudeva.