Shloka 75

Go-dāna-phala-nirdeśa

Merit and Destinations from the Gift of Cows

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि पञचसप्ततितमो<ध्याय: ॥। ७५ || इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें पचद्तत्तरवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi pañcasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || 75 ||

Translation

Như vậy, trong Śrī Mahābhārata, thuộc Anuśāsana Parva, trong phần nói về pháp của bố thí (dāna-dharma), chương thứ bảy mươi lăm đã kết thúc. Công thức kết thúc này đánh dấu sự hoàn mãn của chương, nơi lời giáo huấn của Bhīṣma dành cho Yudhiṣṭhira tiếp tục định hình đời sống đạo đức bằng kỷ luật của lòng rộng thí và hạnh hành chính trực.

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-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

• पञ्चसप्ततितमः: seventy-fifth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चसप्तति-तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Anuśāsana Parva
• Dāna-dharma Parva
• Bhīṣma

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals the completion of a chapter situated in the Dāna-dharma (ethics of giving) discourse, reinforcing that Bhīṣma’s instruction is organized as a sustained ethical teaching on righteous generosity within dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the seventy-fifth chapter of the Dāna-dharma section within the Anuśāsana Parva. It functions as an editorial/narrative marker indicating that the current unit of Bhīṣma’s instruction has ended and the next chapter will begin thereafter.