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Shloka 323

देवतापितृप्रश्नः — Nārada at Badarīāśrama: the ultimate referent of daiva and pitṛ worship

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि पावकाध्ययनं नामैकविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi pāvakādhyayanaṃ nāmaikaviṃśatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «شري مهابهاراتا»، ضمن «شانتِي بارفا» وبخاصة في قسم «موكشادهرما»، ينتهي الفصل المعنون «دراسة/تلاوة ما يتعلّق بباڤاكا (النار)»، وهو الفصل الحادي والثلاثمائة بعد الثلاثمائة. وهذا كولوفون يَسِمُ ختامَ سلسلةٍ من التعاليم المنسوبة إلى بهيشما، ويُدرج الخطاب ضمن الاستقصاء الأخلاقي والتحرّري في موكشادهرما.

Word by Word

itithus; so

śrīmahābhāratein the venerable Mahābhārata

śāntiparvaṇiin the Śānti-parvan

mokṣadharmaparvaṇiin the Mokṣadharma-parvan

pāvakādhyayanamthe chapter/section called 'Pāvaka-adhyayana' (study/discourse on Pāvaka/Fire)

nāmaby name; called

eka-viṃśati-adhika-tri-śatatamaḥthe three-hundred-and-twenty-first (i.e., 300 + 20 + 1)

adhyāyaḥchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Pāvaka (Agni/Fire)

Character Dynamics

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?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a Mokṣa-dharma chapter titled “Pāvaka-adhyayana,” framing the preceding material as part of Bhīṣma’s liberation-oriented instruction within Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the chapter title and number, functioning as an editorial/narrative boundary marker.