Shloka 206

Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें मनु और बृहस्पतिका संवादरूप दो सौ छठा अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi antargate mokṣadharmaparvaṇi manu-bṛhaspati-saṃvādarūpaḥ dvi-śata-ṣaṣṭhaḥ adhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

So endet im ehrwürdigen Śrī Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Śānti Parva—genauer im Mokṣadharma-Abschnitt—das zweihundertsechste Kapitel, dargeboten als Dialog zwischen Manu und Bṛhaspati.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतेcontained/within

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

मनुManu

बृहस्पतेःof Brihaspati

संवादरूपःin the form of a dialogue

द्विशतष्ठःtwo hundred and sixth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma Parva

Manu

Bṛhaspati

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it marks the completion of a chapter framed as a Manu–Bṛhaspati dialogue within Mokṣadharma, indicating that the preceding discussion belongs to the liberation-oriented ethical and spiritual instruction characteristic of this section.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma’s discourse to Yudhiṣṭhira continues through the Mokṣadharma material; here the text signals that the chapter presented as a dialogue between Manu and Bṛhaspati has ended—an editorial/narrative closure before the next chapter begins.