Shanti Parva Adhyaya 127 Shloka 126 - Mahabharata | Sanskrit | Vedapath

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Shloka 126

Gautama–Yama Saṃvāda: Mātṛ-Pitṛ-Ṛṇa (Debt to Parents) and Śubha-Loka Attainment

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि ऋषभगीतासु षड्विंशत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi ṛṣabhagītāsu ṣaḍviṃśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि ऋषभगीतासु षड्विंशत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः॥

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'śrī'

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rājadharmānuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in royal duties)

ऋषभगीतासुin the Ṛṣabha-gītās (songs/chapters called Ṛṣabha-gītā)

षड्विंशत्यधिकशततमःthe one hundred twenty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Ṛ

Ṛṣabha-gītā

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

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 rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals that the chapter belongs to the Śānti Parva’s Rājadharma instruction, specifically within the Ṛṣabha-gītā discourse, framing the surrounding material as ethical guidance for rulers.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it formally marks the end of the adhyāya and identifies its location within the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parva, in the subsection devoted to Bhīṣma’s instruction on royal duties.