Shloka 125

Vānaprastha-dharma and Tapas: Śiva–Umā Saṃvāda

Forest-Stage Discipline and Austerity

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार यह श्राद्धके काल, क्रम, विधि, पात्र और फलका यथावतरूपसे वर्णन किया गया है ।। इति श्रीमहा भारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि पितृरहस्यं नाम पज्चविंशत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

śakra uvāca |

iti prakāraṁ idaṁ śrāddhasya kālaḥ kramaḥ vidhiḥ pātraṁ ca phalaṁ ca yathāvat-rūpeṇa varṇitaṁ | iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi pitṛrahasyaṁ nāma pañcaviṁśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

Śakra (Đế Thích) nói: “Như vậy, sự trình bày đúng đắn về lễ śrāddha đã được nêu rõ—thời điểm thích hợp, trình tự, nghi thức, những người thọ nhận xứng đáng, và quả báo mà nó đem lại.” Với điều ấy, trong Thánh sử Mahābhārata, ở Anuśāsana Parva, thuộc phần Dāna-dharma, chương mang tên “Bí mật về Tổ tiên” — chương thứ một trăm hai mươi lăm — được kết thúc.

Word by Word

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

• श्री: auspicious; venerable (honorific)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महाभारते: in the Mahabharata
• महाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

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

• पितृरहस्यं: the secret (teaching) about the ancestors
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृरहस्य
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• नाम: named; called
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम

• पञ्चविंशति: twenty-five
• Type: Noun
• Root: पञ्चविंशति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: additional; more
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शततमः: hundredth (ordinal)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

शक्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

• शक्र (Indra)
• श्राद्ध (ancestral rite)
• पितृ (ancestors)
• महाभारत (Mahābhārata)
• अनुशासनपर्व (Anuśāsana Parva)
• दानधर्मपर्व (Dāna-dharma section)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Śrāddha should be performed correctly—at the proper time, in the proper sequence and method, offered to worthy recipients—because the ethical quality of the act (right procedure and right recipient) determines its fruit.

What is happening in the narrative?

Indra (Śakra) closes his instruction by summarizing that the rules and results of śrāddha have been fully explained; the verse also functions as a colophon marking the end of the chapter titled “Pitṛrahasya” within the Anuśāsana Parva’s teachings on dāna-dharma.