Shloka 29157

सक्तुदानमहिमा — The Merit of Justly-Earned Charity

Kapotī Brāhmaṇa and Dharma as Atithi

Devanagari script

(दाक्षिणात्य अधिक पाठके १२२० श्लोक मिलाकर कुल १२७३ श्लोक हैं) ऑपन-- मा बछ। अप ऋाल ।।

Transliteration

dākṣiṇātya adhika-pāṭhake 1220 śloka milākara kula 1273 ślokāḥ santi | āśvamedhika-parva sampūrṇam | anuṣṭup (anya baḍe chanda) baḍe chandōṃ ko 32 akṣaroṃ ke kula-yoga ko anuṣṭup mānakara ginane para uttara-bhāratīya-pāṭhase liye gaye 2747 || (122) 168

Translation

Vaiśampāyana donne une note de type colophon : dans la recension méridionale (Dakṣiṇātya), on ajoute 1 220 vers, portant le total de cette section à 1 273 ; ainsi s’achève l’Aśvamedhika Parva. Pour le décompte métrique, les mètres plus longs sont parfois convertis en un équivalent d’Anuṣṭubh, en comptant chaque groupe de 32 syllabes comme un Anuṣṭubh ; selon cette méthode, la recension septentrionale donne le nombre de 2 747. Ce passage relève de l’édition et de la comptabilité métrique plutôt que du récit : il marque la clôture formelle du parva et indique des statistiques de variantes textuelles.

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'दाक्षिणात्य (dākṣiṇātya)', 'definition': 'southern

• pertaining to the Southern recension/tradition'}, {'term': 'अधिक-पाठ (adhika-pāṭha)', 'definition': 'additional reading

• extra textual material/variant'}, {'term': 'श्लोक (śloka)', 'definition': 'a verse

• commonly a metrical unit in epic Sanskrit'}, {'term': 'कुल (kula)', 'definition': 'total

• sum'}, {'term': 'आश्वमेधिकपर्व (āśvamedhika-parva)', 'definition': 'the Aśvamedhika Parva

• the book dealing with the horse-sacrifice context and its aftermath'}, {'term': 'सम्पूर्णम् (sampūrṇam)', 'definition': 'completed

• concluded'}, {'term': 'अनुष्टुप् (anuṣṭup)', 'definition': 'the common epic metre (śloka-metre), often used as a counting standard'}, {'term': 'छन्दस् (chandas)', 'definition': 'metre

• poetic prosody'}, {'term': 'अक्षर (akṣara)', 'definition': 'syllable (in metrical counting)'}, {'term': 'उत्तर-भारतीय-पाठ (uttara-bhāratīya-pāṭha)', 'definition': 'Northern Indian recension/reading'}]

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Āśvamedhika Parva
• Dakṣiṇātya (Southern recension)
• Uttara-bhāratīya pāṭha (Northern recension)
• Anuṣṭubh metre

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This passage does not present a moral teaching in the usual narrative sense; it functions as a colophon and editorial note, emphasizing the careful preservation of the Mahābhārata through different recensions and the scholarly practice of standardizing metrical counts.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana marks the completion of the Āśvamedhika Parva and reports verse-count differences between the Southern and Northern textual traditions, including a method for converting longer metres into an equivalent Anuṣṭubh-based count.