Shloka 17

सहधर्म-प्रश्नः तथा अष्टावक्रोपाख्यान-प्रस्तावः

Inquiry on Sahadharma and the Opening of the Aṣṭāvakra Narrative

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि महादेवसहस्रनामस्तोत्रे सप्तदशोड्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi mahādevasahasranāmastotre saptadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారతం అనుశాసనపర్వంలోని దానధర్మపర్వంలో మహాదేవ సహస్రనామ స్తోత్రానికి సంబంధించిన పదిహేడవ అధ్యాయం ముగిసింది।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anushasana Parva
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the section on the dharma of giving
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• महादेवसहस्रनामस्तोत्रे: in the hymn of the thousand names of Mahadeva
• महादेवसहस्रनामस्तोत्रे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महादेवसहस्रनामस्तोत्र
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तदश: seventeenth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तदश
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Mahādeva (Śiva)
• Sahasranāma-stotra

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter within the Mahādeva-sahasranāma hymn, situated in the broader discussion of dāna-dharma (the ethics of giving). Its function is structural: it frames the hymn as part of the Mahābhārata’s instructional discourse on dharma and devotion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Rather than advancing the story, the text signals completion: it announces that the seventeenth chapter of the Mahādeva-sahasranāma-stotra section has concluded within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma portion.