Shloka 73

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि यमवाक्‍्यं नाम एकसप्ततितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi yamavākyaṃ nāma ekasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Assim, no Śrī Mahābhārata, dentro do Anuśāsana Parva—na seção sobre o dharma da doação—encerra-se o septuagésimo primeiro capítulo, intitulado “O Discurso de Yama”.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dāna-dharma section

यमवाक्यम्‘Yama’s discourse/statement’

नामnamed; called

एकसप्ततितमःseventy-first (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

नाचिकेत उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma (section)

Yama

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon, framing the preceding material as authoritative instruction on dāna-dharma (the ethical discipline of giving) and identifying it as a discourse attributed to Yama, thereby emphasizing moral accountability and the religious weight of charitable conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse is not a spoken dialogue-content line but an editorial/structural closing formula: it marks the end of a chapter in the Anuśāsana Parva and names the chapter “Yama’s Discourse,” situating it within the broader section on the dharma of giving.