🪷 Mahābhārata · 1.3.15

Ādi-Parva · The Book of the Beginning · Chapter 3 · Verse 15

स एवमुक्तः प्रत्युवाच भो जनमेजय पुत्रोऽयं मम सर्प्यां जातः महातपस्वी स्वाध्यायसंपन्नो मत्तपोवीर्यसंभृतो मच्छुक्रं पीतवत्यास्तस्याः कुक्षौ संवृद्धः समर्थोऽयं भवतः सर्वाः पापकृत्याः शमयितुमन्तरेण महादेवकृत्याम् अस्य त्वेकमुपांशुव्रतम् यदेनं कश्चिद्ब्राह्मणः कंचिदर्थमभियाचेत्तं तस्मै दद्यादयम् यद्येतदुत्सहसे ततो नयस्वैनमिति
— Mahābhārata 1.3.15 · Sanskrit reading text

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MBh 1.3.15local per-verse Mahābhārata source routeMBh 1.3parent chapter route for local contextĀdi-Parvaparent Parva chapter index/mahabharata18-parva Sanskrit reading index with edition and address notesBhīṣma-ParvaMahābhārata Parva 6 · the Gītā lives in chapters 23-40MBh 6.23Bhagavad-Gītā chapter 1 in its Itihāsa homeMBh 6.40Bhagavad-Gītā chapter 18 in its Itihāsa homeRāmopākhyānaVana-Parva 258 · Vyāsa narrates the Rāma-kathā inside Krishna's epicNārāyaṇīyamŚānti-Parva 335 · Nārāyaṇa/Krishna/Viṣṇu/Vāsudeva unity witness/bhagavad-gitadeep Gītā corpus with translations, commentaries, and verse-level anchorsBG 1.1Dharma-kṣetra opening cross-anchored to MBh 6.23.1BG 18.66Carama-Śloka surrender seal inside the Bhīṣma-Parva arcVyāsa vibhūtiBG 10.37 · Krishna names Vyāsa among munisBG 10.37Vyāsa and Dhanañjaya as Krishna-vibhūti source routeŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Vyāsa corpus source seal/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Itihāsa as one Bindu aperture/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation
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