Shloka 77

Chapter 78: Royal Responsibility for Wealth, Social Order, and the Protection of Dvijas

Kekaya Exemplum

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि कैकेयोपाख्याने सप्तसप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi kaikeyopākhyāne saptasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Ainsi s’achève le soixante-dix-septième chapitre de l’épisode de Kaikeya dans le Śānti Parva du Śrī Mahābhārata, au sein de la section qui enseigne le dharma des rois. (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

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: in the Rajadharmanushasana Parva (section on instruction in royal duties)
• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• कैकेयोपाख्याने: in the Kaikeya-upakhyana (episode of Kaikeya)
• कैकेयोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कैकेयोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तसप्ततितमः: seventy-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तसप्तति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva
• Kaikeya (as the named episode: Kaikeyopākhyāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it situates the material within the Mahābhārata’s instruction on rājadharma (the ethical and practical duties of kings) and marks the completion of a chapter in the Kaikeya episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it announces that, within the Śānti Parva’s rājadharma instruction section, the seventy-seventh chapter of the Kaikeyopākhyāna has concluded.