Shloka 50

Cavana’s Tests of Kuśika and the Queen (अध्याय ५३: च्यवन–कुशिक-परिक्षा)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि च्यवनोपाख्याने पज्चाशत्तमोडथध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi cyavanopākhyāne pañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Ainsi s’achève le cinquantième chapitre de l’épisode de Cyavana, dans la section du Dāna-dharma de l’Anuśāsana Parva du Śrī Mahābhārata. (Colophon marquant la clôture du chapitre.)

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the Dana-dharma section (parvan)
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• च्यवनोपाख्याने: in the episode (upakhyana) of Chyavana
• च्यवनोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: च्यवन-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशत्तमः: the fiftieth
• पञ्चाशत्तमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चाशत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Cyavana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a teaching verse but a colophon: it signals the completion of a chapter within the Dāna-dharma (charity ethics) discourse, framing the surrounding material as instruction on righteous giving.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a unit of narration: the fiftieth chapter of the Cyavana-related episode within Anuśāsana Parva’s Dāna-dharma section ends here.