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Shloka 61

Varṇāśrama-ācāra and Vikarma: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Inquiry on Safe Dharmas (शिवधर्मप्रश्नः)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि चतुराश्रमधर्मकथने एकषष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi caturāśramadharmakathane ekaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے اندر، راج دھرم انوشاسن پَرو میں، چتُر آشرم دھرم کے بیان پر مشتمل اکسٹھواں ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

इतिthus; so; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the (sub-)parvan called 'Instruction on the Duties of Kings'

चतुराश्रमधर्मकथनेin the discourse on the dharma of the four āśramas

एकषष्टितमःsixty-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Caturāśrama (four stages of life)

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 whose subject is caturāśrama-dharma—the ethical duties appropriate to the four stages of life—presented within Bhīṣma’s broader instruction on rājadharma (the king’s responsibilities).

What is happening in the narrative?

The text signals the end of the sixty-first chapter in the Śānti Parva’s rājadharma instruction section. It functions as an editorial/structural closure rather than a spoken verse content, summarizing the chapter’s theme.