Shloka 61

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत सभापव॑के अन्तर्गत ट्टूतपर्वमें झूतक्रीडराविषयक इकसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate sabhāparvaṇi antargate dyūtapārve dyūtakrīḍāviṣayaka ekaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

至此，在尊崇的《摩诃婆罗多》中，于《 सभा篇》（Sabhā Parva）之内、关于掷骰事件的《赌篇》（Dyūta Parva）里，论及赌博与骰戏之第六十一章告终。此结语为叙事单元之完结标记，昭示一处重大的道德与政治转折：克制与明断的失落，遂为更广阔的冲突铺陈其路。

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

सभापर्वणिin the Sabha Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (therein)

द्यूतपर्वणिin the Dyuta-parvan (Gambling episode section)

द्यूतक्रीडाविषयकःconcerning the gambling game

एकषष्टितमःsixty-first

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Sabhā Parva

Dyūta Parva

dyūtakrīḍā (dice-game)

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?

As a chapter-colophon, the verse itself teaches by framing the dice-game material as a complete, morally weighty unit: gambling (dyūta) is presented as a vice that undermines self-control, judgment, and righteous governance, and its consequences ripple outward into social and political catastrophe.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing statement of the sixty-first chapter within the Dyūta section of the Sabhā Parva. It signals that the narration on the dice-game topic has reached a chapter boundary and prepares the listener/reader for the next development in the unfolding crisis.