Anushasana Parva Adhyaya 66 Shloka 63 - Mahabharata | Telugu | Vedapath

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Shloka 63

Pānīya-dāna and Anna-dāna: The Primacy of Life-Sustaining Gifts (पानीयदान-प्रशंसा / अन्नदान-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि अन्नदानप्रशंसायां त्रिषष्टितमो5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें अन्नदानकी प्रशंसाविषयक तिरसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi annadānapraśaṃsāyāṃ triṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారతం అనుశాసనపర్వంలో, దానధర్మపర్వంలో, అన్నదానప్రశంసా విషయక మూడువెయ్యి మూడవ (త్రిషష్టితమ) అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dāna-dharma section (parvan/sub-parvan)

अन्नदानप्रशंसायाम्in the praise of food-giving

त्रिषष्टितमःsixty-third

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva (section)

Annadāna (gift of food)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The chapter’s closing colophon highlights annadāna—feeding others—as a highly praised form of dāna (charity), framing it as a central ethical duty within dāna-dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is not a new spoken verse but an editorial/recitational closing marker stating that the sixty-third chapter on the praise of food-giving, within the Anuśāsana Parva’s dāna-dharma section, has ended.