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Shloka 155

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि पवनार्जुनसंवादे पड्चपञ्चाशदधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi pavanārjunasaṃvāde pañcapañcāśad-adhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในมหาภารตะอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ภายในอนุศาสนปรรพ เฉพาะในส่วนว่าด้วยธรรมแห่งทาน (ทานธรรม) บทสนทนาระหว่างปวณะ (เทพวายุ) กับอรชุน—จบบทที่หนึ่งร้อยห้าสิบห้า

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीglory; auspiciousness; honorific

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dāna-dharma section

पवनार्जुनसंवादेin the dialogue of Pavana and Arjuna

पञ्चपञ्चाशत्fifty-five

अधिकadditional; exceeding

शततमःthe hundred-and-...th (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Pavana (Vāyu)

Arjuna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

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 and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s instructional framework—here, the Dāna-dharma (ethics of giving). It signals that the surrounding material is to be read as normative guidance on righteous conduct, especially generosity and its proper practice.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a unit described as the ‘dialogue between Pavana (Vāyu) and Arjuna’ and formally announcing the chapter’s end and its placement within Anuśāsana Parva and the Dāna-dharma section.