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Shloka 76

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते सभापर्वणि अनुद्यूतपर्वणि पुनर्युधिष्ठटिरपरा भवे षट्सप्ततितमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate sabhāparvaṇi anudyūtapārvaṇi punar yudhiṣṭhiraparābhave ṣaṭsaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारते सभापर्वणि अनुद्यूतपर्वणि युधिष्ठिरस्य पुनः पराजयवर्णने षट्सप्ततितमोऽध्यायः।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीsplendor; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

सभापर्वणिin the Sabhā-parvan (Book of the Assembly Hall)

अनुद्यूतपर्वणिin the Anudyūta-parvan (section on the subsequent dice-game)

पुनःagain

युधिष्ठिरYudhiṣṭhira

अपराanother; subsequent

भवेin the existence/occasion; in the context

षट्सप्ततितमःseventy-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

(वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Sabhā Parva

Anudyūta Parvan

Yudhiṣṭhira

Vaiśaṃpāyana

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?

Even a ruler devoted to dharma can fall when discernment is compromised by addiction, social pressure, or manipulative opponents; the epic highlights accountability and the ethical peril of wagering what one has no right to risk.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a concluding colophon stating that the chapter ends in the Sabhā Parva’s Anudyūta episode, specifically the account of Yudhiṣṭhira’s renewed defeat in the second dice-game.