Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 169 Shloka 163 - Mahabharata | Tamil | Vedapath

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Shloka 163

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि धर्मप्रशंसायां त्रिषष्ट्यधिकशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें धर्मकी प्रशंशाविषयक एक सौ तिरसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi dharmapraśaṃsāyāṃ triṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

இதி ஸ்ரீமகாபாரதத்தின் அனுஷாசனபர்வத்தின் உட்பட்ட தானதர்மபர்வத்தில், தர்மப் புகழ்ச்சியைப் பற்றிய நூற்று அறுபத்திமூன்றாம் அத்தியாயம் நிறைவுற்றது.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dāna-dharma section

धर्मप्रशंसायाम्in (the topic of) praise of dharma

त्रिषष्ट्यधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-sixty-third

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Dharma

Bhīṣma (as speaker, per metadata)

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 verse is a colophon that frames the teaching as 'dharma-praśaṃsā'—the praise and affirmation of dharma—situated within the dāna-dharma context, implying that righteous giving and adherence to duty are central expressions of dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is formally closing a chapter within the Anuśāsana Parva. It signals that the discourse (attributed to Bhīṣma in the surrounding narrative) has completed a unit focused on dharma, especially as articulated through the ethics of giving.