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Shloka 190

निरय-परमस्थान-वर्णनम्

Niraya and the Supreme Station: A Metaphysical Re-reading

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि भुगुभरद्वाजसंवादे नवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi bhṛgubharadvājasaṃvāde navatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «شري مهابهاراتا»، ضمن «شانتِي بارفَن»—وخاصة في قسم «موكشا-دهرما»—تنتهي محاورة بهريغو (Bhṛgu) وبهارادفاجا (Bharadvāja)، مُعلِنة ختام الفصل المئة والتسعين (أي الفصل 191 بحسب هذا الترقيم).

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

भृगु-भरद्वाज-संवादेin the dialogue of Bhrigu and Bharadvaja

नवति-अधिक-शततमःthe one hundred and ninetieth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Bhṛgu

Bharadvāja

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the textual setting (Śānti Parvan, Mokṣa-dharma) and closes the Bhṛgu–Bharadvāja dialogue, framing the preceding material as instruction oriented toward dharma and liberation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes: the compiler’s closing formula identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parvan), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the interlocutors (Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja), and marks the end of the chapter.