Shloka 15

धृतराष्ट्रस्य क्षमायाचनं तथा युधिष्ठिरे न्यासदानम् / Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Request for Forgiveness and the Entrustment to Yudhiṣṭhira

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते आश्रमवासिके पर्वणि आश्रमवासपर्वणि धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याणे पज्चदशो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate āśramavāsike parvaṇi āśramavāsaparvaṇi dhṛtarāṣṭraniryāṇe pañcadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے آشرم واسِک پَرو میں دھرتراشٹر کے روانہ ہونے کے بیان کا پندرھواں باب اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

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

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

• आश्रमवासिके: in (the parvan) called Āśramavāsika
• आश्रमवासिके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आश्रमवासिक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पर्वणि: in the book/section (parvan)
• पर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आश्रमवासपर्वणि: in the Āśramavāsa-parvan (section on dwelling in the hermitage)
• आश्रमवासपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आश्रमवासपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याणे: in (the topic/chapter of) Dhṛtarāṣṭra's departure
• धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धृतराष्ट्रनिर्याण
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चदशः: fifteenth
• पञ्चदशः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चदश
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Āśramavāsika Parva
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through instruction but through framing: it signals the epic’s ethical movement from worldly rule to withdrawal, highlighting that power and conflict culminate in accountability, renunciation, and the search for inner steadiness.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it states that the fifteenth chapter ends within the Āśramavāsika Parva, in the portion dealing with life in the forest-āśrama and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s departure.