Shanti Parva Adhyaya 360 Shloka 357 - Mahabharata | Arabic | Vedapath

Vyasa

Shloka 357

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वमें उज्छवृत्तिका उपाख्यानविषयक तीन सौ सत्तावनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata-śāntiparva-ke antargata-gokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttikā-upākhyāna-viṣayaka trī-śata-saptapañcāśattamaḥ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

وهكذا ينتهي الفصل السابع والخمسون بعد الثلاثمائة من «شانتِي پرفا» في «المهابهاراتا المجيدة»، ضمن القسم المعروف بـ«غوكشا-دهرما پرفا»، المتعلق بالحكاية التمثيلية (upākhyāna) لأُجّهافْرِتّيكَا (Ujjhavṛttikā). وتشير خاتمةُ التذييل هذه إلى اكتمال تعليم ذلك الفصل، مصوغًا مثالًا أخلاقيًا داخل الخطاب الأوسع عن الدَّرما.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Shri'

महाभारतम्the Mahabharata

शान्तिpeace; Shanti (name)

पर्वbook; section (parva)

केin/within (which = in it)

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained within

गोक्षGoksha (name/title element)

धर्मdharma; duty; law

पर्वin the section (parva)

उज्छवृत्तिकाof Ucchavṛttikā (name)

उपाख्यानepisode; tale

विषयकconcerning; pertaining to

त्रिthree

शतhundred

सप्तseven

पञ्चाशत्fifty

अध्यायःchapter

पूर्णःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Gokṣa-dharma Parva

Ujjhavṛttikā (upākhyāna)

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 line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: its function is to mark the completion of a chapter and to identify its placement (Śānti Parva → Gokṣa-dharma section) and its subject (the Ujjhavṛttikā exemplum). The ethical import is indirect: it frames the preceding material as dharma-instruction delivered through an illustrative tale.

What is happening in the narrative?

No new narrative event occurs here. The text formally closes the chapter, stating that the chapter dealing with the Ujjhavṛttikā upākhyāna within the Gokṣa-dharma section of Śānti Parva has concluded.