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Shloka 45

Varṇasaṃkara: Causes, Classifications, and Conduct-based Recognition (वर्णसंकरः—हेतु-जाति-आचारनिर्णयः)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते अनुशासनपर्वणि दानधर्मपर्वणि विवाहधर्मे यमगाथा नाम पज्चचत्वारिंशो5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate anuśāsanaparvaṇi dānadharmaparvaṇi vivāhadharme yamagāthā nāma pañcacatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

如是，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》之《阿努沙萨那篇》中，于“布施与法”部、婚姻之法分支内，题为《阎摩偈》（Yamagāthā，阎摩之颂）的第四十五章告终。

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

अनुशासनपर्वणिin the Anuśāsana-parvan

दानधर्मपर्वणिin the Dāna-dharma section

विवाहधर्मेin (the topic of) marriage-dharma

यमगाथाYama-gāthā (name/title)

नामnamed; called

पञ्चचत्वारिंशःforty-fifth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Anuśāsana Parva

Dāna-dharma-parva

Vivāha-dharma

Yama

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 verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals that the chapter’s instruction—framed under dāna-dharma and specifically vivāha-dharma, titled Yamagāthā—has concluded, emphasizing the text’s organization of ethical teachings within dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The discourse attributed to Bhīṣma reaches a formal stopping point: the editor’s/reciter’s closing formula identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Anuśāsana), the internal section (dāna-dharma), the topic (vivāha-dharma), and the chapter title (Yamagāthā), marking the end of the forty-fifth chapter.