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Shloka 166

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि भीष्मानुज्ञायां षट्षष्ट्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi bhīṣmānujñāyāṃ ṣaṭṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत के अनुशासनपर्व के दानधर्मपर्व में, भीष्म की अनुज्ञा के प्रसंग में, एक सौ छियासठवाँ अध्याय समाप्त होता है।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of gifts (Dāna-dharma-parvan)

भीष्मानुज्ञायाम्in (the subsection called) Bhīṣmānuज्ञā / Bhīṣma’s permission/assent

षट्षष्ट्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-sixty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma (section)

Bhīṣma

Vaiśampāyana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it frames the chapter as part of the Mahābhārata’s Anuśāsana Parva and locates its ethical emphasis in dāna-dharma (the duty and principles of giving), presented under Bhīṣma’s authoritative instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator (Vaiśampāyana) signals the formal close of the chapter: it identifies the larger book (Anuśāsana Parva), the sub-section (dāna-dharma), and notes the contextual rubric ‘Bhīṣmānujñāyām,’ indicating that the discourse is delivered with Bhīṣma’s assent/authorization as he instructs on dharma.