Shloka 72

गोप्रदानगुणाः तथा कपिलागोविधानम्

Merits of Cow-Gift and the Origin-Account of Kapilā Cows

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपरव्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें गोदानसम्बन्धी बहतत्तरवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi antargate dānadharmaparvaṇi godānasambandhī bahattaratamo ’dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ പവിത്ര മഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ അനുശാസനപർവ്വത്തിന്റെ അന്തർഗതമായ ദാനധർമ്മപർവ്വത്തിൽ ഗോദാനവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട എഴുപത്തിരണ്ടാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारेणin this manner; by this way

श्रीvenerable; auspicious (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dana-dharma Parva (section on the duty of giving)

गोदानसम्बन्धीrelated to the gift of cows

बहत्तरतमःseventy-second

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

शक्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Go-dāna (cow-gift)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals the completion of a teaching unit on dāna-dharma, specifically go-dāna. In the ethical frame of the Anuśāsana Parva, such endings emphasize that charity—performed with right intention and according to dharma—is a structured discipline with distinct topics and conclusions.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line functions as a closing colophon rather than a spoken verse: it announces that the seventy-second chapter dealing with cow-gifts, within the Dāna-dharma section of the Anuśāsana Parva, has concluded.