Shloka 39

Vipula’s Guru-Obedience, Divine Flowers, and the Peril of Others’ Oaths (विपुलोपाख्यानम्—पुष्पप्राप्तिः शपथ-प्रसङ्गश्च)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि स्त्रीस्वभावकथने एकोनचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi strīsvabhāvakathane ekonacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇతి శ్రీమహాభారత అనుశాసనపర్వములో దానధర్మపర్వమునందు స్త్రీస్వభావకథనవిషయక ఏకోనచత్వారింశోధ్యాయము.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section on the dharma of giving

स्त्रीस्वभावकथनेin the narration/discussion of women's nature

एकोनचत्वारिंशःthirty-ninth (lit. one-less-than-forty)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

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 and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s instructional framework—specifically the Anuśāsana Parva’s discussion of dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) and a discourse on strī-svabhāva (women’s disposition). It signals textual organization rather than presenting a new doctrinal verse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it formally states the epic (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the internal section (dāna-dharma), and the topic (discussion on women’s nature), and then gives the chapter count as ‘ekona-catvāriṃśa’ (39th) within that framing.