Shloka 128

Āpad-dharma and Discernment in Livelihood (आपद्धर्मे विज्ञानबलम्)

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधमनुिशासनपर्वमें ऋषभगीताविषयक एक सौ अद्ठाईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrī-mahābhārate śānti-parvaṇi antargata rājadharmānuśāsana-parvaṇi ṛṣabha-gītā-viṣayaka eka-śata-aṣṭāviṁśat-tamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവ്വാന്തർഗതമായ രാജധർമ്മാനുശാസനപർവ്വത്തിൽ ഋഷഭഗീതാ വിഷയകമായ നൂറ്റി ഇരുപത്തെട്ടാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained (within)

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rajadharmanushasana Parva (section)

ऋषभगीताविषयकःconcerning the Rishabha-gita

एकशताष्टाविंशतितमःone hundred twenty-eighth

अध्यायःchapter

पूर्णःcompleted

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana-parvan

Ṛ

Ṛṣabha-gītā

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the completion of a chapter whose subject is the Ṛṣabha-gītā within the Rājadharma (duties of kings) instructional material of the Śānti Parva; it signals a transition point in the didactic exposition rather than adding new doctrine in itself.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the chapter: it states that, in the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parva—within the Rājadharmānuśāsana section—the 128th chapter on the topic of Ṛṣabha-gītā has ended.