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Shloka 39

युधिष्ठिरस्य नगरप्रवेशः — चार्वाकप्रकरणं

Yudhiṣṭhira’s Entry into the City and the Cārvāka Episode

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि चार्वाकवरदानादिकथ ने एकोनचत्वारिंशो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi cārvākavaradānādikathane ekonacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత శాంతిపర్వంలోని రాజధర్మానుశాసనపర్వంలో చార్వాకుడు, వరప్రదానం మొదలైన ప్రసంగములు గల ముప్పై తొమ్మిదవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rajadharma-anushasana section (parvan)

चार्वाकवरदानादिकथनेin the narration beginning with Charvaka's boon, etc.

एकोनचत्वारिंशःthirty-ninth (one less than forty)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Cārvāka

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 within the Rājadharma instruction of the Śānti Parva. Its ethical frame is that the surrounding discourse belongs to guidance on kingship and governance (rājadharma), where right rule is treated as a pillar of social order after the devastation of war.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse is not part of the spoken dialogue (despite the speaker label); it functions as an editorial/recensional closing formula: it announces that the narration concerning Cārvāka and the granting of boons and related topics has concluded for the thirty-ninth chapter of the Śānti Parva’s Rājadharma section.