Shloka 79

ऋत्विग्धर्मः, दक्षिणा-न्यायः, तपसः परमार्थः

Ritvij-Dharma, the Norm of Dakṣiṇā, and the Higher Meaning of Tapas

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि एकोनाशीतितमो<ध्याय: ।। ७९ || इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधमनिशासनपर्वमें उन्यासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi ekonāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || 79 ||

Translation

ဤသို့ဖြင့် «သရီ မဟာဘာရတ» ၏ «ရှာန္တိ ပရဝ» အတွင်းရှိ «ရာဇဓမ္မာနုသာသန ပရဝ» (ဘုရင်တို့၏ တာဝန်ဓမ္မကို သင်ကြားရာ အခန်း) တွင် အခန်း (အဓ္ဓာယ) ၇၉ (ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ ၈၁ မှ ၁ လျော့) သည် ပြီးဆုံးလေ၏။ ဤသည်မှာ ဘီရှ္မ၏ ရာဇဓမ္မဆိုင်ရာ ဟောကြားချက်အတွင်း အခန်းပြီးဆုံးကြောင်းကို အတည်ပြုသည့် တရားဝင် အဆုံးသတ်စာတမ်း (colophon) ဖြစ်သည်။

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: in the Rājadharmānuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in royal duties)
• राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकोनाशीतितमः: the seventy-ninth (lit. one-less-than-eighty) (chapter)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकोनाशीतितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva
• Bhīṣma

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals the completion of a chapter within Bhīṣma’s instruction on rājadharma (the ethical and practical duties of a ruler) in the Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the chapter in the Śānti Parva’s rājadharma instruction section, indicating that Bhīṣma’s discourse has reached the end of this adhyāya.