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

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत के शान्तिपर्व के राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वान्तर्गत कैकेयोपाख्यान का सत्तहत्तरवाँ अध्याय समाप्त हुआ।

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.