Shloka 63

दमयन्त्याः अरण्यविहारः — Damayantī’s Passage through the Wilderness

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि नलवनयात्रायामेकषष्टितमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi nalopākhyānaparvaṇi nalavanayātrāyām ekṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the sixty-first chapter in the Vana Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the section known as the Nala-episode, in the portion describing Nala’s journey through the forest. This is a concluding colophon marking the close of the chapter rather than a spoken narrative verse.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्री: auspiciousness; venerable (honorific)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महाभारते: in the Mahābhārata
• महाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि: in the Nala-upākhyāna section
• नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नलोपाख्यानपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• नलवनयात्रायाम्: in (the episode of) Nala's journey to the forest
• नलवनयात्रायाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नलवनयात्रा
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• एकषष्टितमः: sixty-first
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकषष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

नल उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Nala-upākhyāna
• Nala