Shloka 66

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि चातुराश्रम्यविधौ षट्षष्टितमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi cāturāśramyavidhau ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو میں، راج دھرم انوشاسن پَرو کے تحت، چاتُر آشرمْی وِدھی کے بیان میں چھیاسٹھواں ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rājadharma-anuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in royal duty)

चातुराश्रम्यविधौin the procedure/rules regarding the four āśramas

षट्षष्टितमःsixty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Cāturāśramya (the four āśramas)

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 marking the close of a chapter; it frames the teaching context as rājadharma (royal ethics and governance) and cāturāśramya-vidhi (the proper ordering of the four stages of life), implying that kingship is to be guided by dharma and by respect for the āśrama-based moral-social framework.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text signals the end of the sixty-sixth chapter within the Śānti Parva’s rājadharma instruction. It is not a spoken narrative event but an editorial/structural closure indicating where the discussion belongs in the larger Mahābhārata.