Shloka 50

Cavana’s Tests of Kuśika and the Queen (अध्याय ५३: च्यवन–कुशिक-परिक्षा)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि च्यवनोपाख्याने पज्चाशत्तमोडथध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi cyavanopākhyāne pañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے انوشاسن پَرو کے دان دھرم پَرو میں چَیون اُپاکھیان کا پچاسواں ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anushasana Parva
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the Dana-dharma section (parvan)
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• च्यवनोपाख्याने: in the episode (upakhyana) of Chyavana
• च्यवनोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: च्यवन-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशत्तमः: the fiftieth
• पञ्चाशत्तमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चाशत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Cyavana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a teaching verse but a colophon: it signals the completion of a chapter within the Dāna-dharma (charity ethics) discourse, framing the surrounding material as instruction on righteous giving.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a unit of narration: the fiftieth chapter of the Cyavana-related episode within Anuśāsana Parva’s Dāna-dharma section ends here.