Shloka 12

Daśa-Karmapatha: Restraints of Body, Speech, and Mind (दश कर्मपथ)

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें भज़ास्वनका उपाख्यानविषयक बारहवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata anuśāsanaparvake antargata dānadharmaparvame bhajāsvanasya upākhyāna-viṣayaka dvādaśo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

આ રીતે શ્રીમહાભારતના અનુશાસનપર્વના અંતર્ગત દાનધર્મપર્વમાં ભજાસ્વન-ઉપાખ્યાનનો બારમો અધ્યાય સમાપ્ત થયો.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतम्the Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वin the Anuśāsana-parvan

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained (within)

दानधर्मपर्वin the Dāna-dharma-parvan (section on the duty of giving)

भङ्गास्वनof Bhaṅgāsvana (proper name)

उपाख्यानof the episode/legend

विषयकconcerning/relating to

द्वादशtwelfth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Bhajāsvana

Bhīṣma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon, signaling the completion of a chapter within the Dāna-dharma teachings. Its ethical frame highlights that the surrounding material is meant to instruct on dāna—right giving as a component of dharma—using the Bhajāsvana episode as an illustrative narrative.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative action pauses: the text formally closes the twelfth chapter of the Bhajāsvana episode within the Anuśāsana Parva’s Dāna-dharma section, in the context of Bhīṣma’s ongoing instruction.