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Shloka 122

Nārāyaṇa-tejas: Kṛṣṇa’s Vrata, the Fire-Manifestation, and the Sages’ Inquiry (अनुशासन पर्व, अध्याय १२६)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि मैत्रेयभिक्षायां द्वाविंशत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi maitreya-bhikṣāyāṃ dvāviṃśaty-adhika-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภาคอนุศาสนปรวะ ตอนทานธรรมปรวะ บทที่หนึ่งร้อยยี่สิบสอง อันมีนามว่า “ภิกษาแห่งไมเตรยะ” ได้สิ้นสุดลง.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the dharma of giving

मैत्रेयभिक्षायाम्in (the episode of) Maitreya's alms-request

द्वाविंशतिtwenty-two

अधिकadditional; over and above

शततमःhundredth (ordinal element)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Maitreya

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?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter within the Dana-dharma section of the Anuśāsana Parva, emphasizing the text’s instructional focus on the ethics and duty of giving (dāna) as part of dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse functions as an editorial/narrative closure: it identifies the larger book (Anuśāsana Parva), the thematic sub-section (Dana-dharma), and the chapter’s topic (“Maitreya’s Alms”), indicating that the chapter has concluded.