Shloka 67

Gopradāna-phalasaṃprāpti: Nāciketa’s Vision of Vaivasvata’s Realms (गोप्रदानफलसम्प्राप्तिः — नाचिकेतोपाख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये सप्तषष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi pānīyadānamāhātmye saptaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

اِتی شری مہابھارت کے انوشاسن پَرو میں، دان دھرم پَرو کے تحت ‘پانیہ دان کی مہاتمیا’ بیان کرنے والا سڑسٹھواں باب اختتام پذیر ہوا۔

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the auspicious Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अनुशासनपर्वणि: in the Anuśāsana-parvan
• अनुशासनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनुशासनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• दानधर्मपर्वणि: in the Dāna-dharma section
• दानधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये: in the (chapter/section on) the greatness of giving drinking-water
• पानीयदानमाहात्म्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पानीयदानमाहात्म्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तषष्टितमः: sixty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तषष्टितम
• 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 (section)
• Pānīya-dāna (gift of drinking water)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse is a colophon concluding a chapter that teaches the religious and ethical value (māhātmya) of donating drinking water—presenting water-giving as a significant form of dāna within dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line formally closes the sixty-seventh chapter within the Anuśāsana Parva’s charity-discourse, signaling the end of Bhīṣma’s instruction on the merits of providing potable water as a gift.