Shloka 44

Varṇasaṃkara: Causes, Classifications, and Conduct-based Recognition (वर्णसंकरः—हेतु-जाति-आचारनिर्णयः)

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें विवाहधर्मका वर्णनविषयक चौवालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvake antargata dānadharmaparvame vivāhadharmasya varṇanaviṣayakaś catuścatvāriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ บทที่สี่สิบสี่ ว่าด้วยธรรมแห่งการสมรส ในหมวดธรรมแห่งทาน ภายในอนุศาสนปรวะแห่งศรีมหาภารตะ จึงสิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Shri'

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anushasana Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dana-dharma section (parva/episode)

विवाहधर्मस्यof the duty/law of marriage

वर्णनविषयकःhaving as its subject the description (of)

चतुश्चत्वारिंशत्तमःforty-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

पूरितःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

भीष्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma Parva

Vivāha-dharma

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 rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a chapter whose subject is vivāha-dharma (marriage duties). Its ethical import is structural—framing marriage as a domain of dharma within the larger instructional discourse of Anuśāsana Parva and within the dāna-dharma section.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the chapter, indicating that the exposition on marriage-related duties within the dāna-dharma division of Anuśāsana Parva has concluded at this point.