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Shloka 112

Ālasyadoṣa-nirdeśa (On the Fault of Negligence) — The Camel’s Long-Neck Exemplum

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि उष्टग्रीवोपाख्याने दादशाधिकशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi uṣṭagrīvopākhyāne dvādaśādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारताच्या शान्तिपर्वातील राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वात उष्टग्रीवोपाख्यानाचा एकशे बारावा अध्याय.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the (section) Anushasana-parvan concerning royal duties

उष्टग्रीवोपाख्यानेin the episode (upakhyana) of Uṣṭagrīva

द्वादशाधिकशततमःthe one hundred and twelfth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

उड्ड उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parvan

Uṣṭagrīva

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 teaching-verse: it frames the surrounding discourse as part of rājadharma (the ethical duties of rulers) and signals that the Uṣṭagrīva episode functions as an illustrative narrative within that moral-political instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter is being formally closed. The text identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parvan), the sub-section (Rājadharmānuśāsana), and the embedded tale (Uṣṭagrīva Upākhyāna), and states that this is the 112th chapter.