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Shloka 66

राज्ञोऽभिषेकः, अराजकदोषः, दण्डधारणस्य आवश्यकता

Royal Consecration, the Fault of Kinglessness, and the Necessity of Enforcement

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि चातुराश्रम्यविधौ षट्षष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi cāturāśramyavidhau ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि चातुराश्रम्यविधौ षट्षष्टितमोऽध्यायः ॥

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rājadharma-anuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in royal duty)

चातुराश्रम्यविधौin the procedure/rules regarding the four āśramas

षट्षष्टितमःsixty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Cāturāśramya (the four āśramas)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

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 marking the close of a chapter; it frames the teaching context as rājadharma (royal ethics and governance) and cāturāśramya-vidhi (the proper ordering of the four stages of life), implying that kingship is to be guided by dharma and by respect for the āśrama-based moral-social framework.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text signals the end of the sixty-sixth chapter within the Śānti Parva’s rājadharma instruction. It is not a spoken narrative event but an editorial/structural closure indicating where the discussion belongs in the larger Mahābhārata.