Shloka 136

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें प्रायक्षित्तविधि नामक एक सौ छत्तीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāreṇa śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi antargate dānadharmaparvaṇi prāyaścittavidhi-nāmakaḥ ekaśata-ṣaṭtriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత అనుశాసనపర్వములోని దానధర్మపర్వంలో ‘ప్రాయశ్చిత్తవిధి’ అనునది నామముగల నూట ముప్పై ఆరవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीglory/auspiciousness; honorific

महाभारतम्the Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणःof the Anushasana Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained within

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dānadharma-parva (section on the duty of giving)

प्रायश्चित्तविधिthe procedure of expiation

नामकःnamed/called

एकone

शतhundred

षट्six

त्रिंशत्thirty

अध्यायःchapter

सम्पूर्णःcompleted/finished

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

भीष्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Prāyaścitta-vidhi (chapter title/theme)

Bhīṣma

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?

This verse functions as a colophon marking the end of a chapter on prāyaścitta (expiation). The ethical thrust is that wrongdoing is not ignored: it is addressed through recognized procedures of atonement and purification, situated within Bhīṣma’s broader instruction on dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the text announces that the chapter titled “Prāyaścitta-vidhi” has been completed within the Dāna-dharma section of the Anuśāsana Parva.