Shloka 339

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें नारययणका माहात्म्यविषयक तीन सौ उनतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata-śāntiparvaṇi antargata-mokṣadharmaparvaṇi nārāyaṇasya māhātmyaviṣayakaḥ trīśat-ūnatriṁśattamaḥ adhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

So endet das dreihundertneununddreißigste Kapitel des Mokṣadharma-Abschnitts innerhalb des Śānti Parva des Śrī Mahābhārata, ein Kapitel, das die Größe Nārāyaṇas verkündet. Der Bericht schließt, indem er die auf Befreiung zielende Lehre in Hingabe und Ehrfurcht vor dem höchsten göttlichen Prinzip einbettet.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner / by this way

श्रीमहाभारतthe revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वकेof the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded / contained within

मोक्षधर्मपर्वin the Mokshadharma section

नारायणस्यof Narayana

माहात्म्यविषयकconcerning the greatness (of)

त्रिशतthree-hundred

ऊनचत्वारिंशत्तमःthree-hundred-and-thirty-ninth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted

अभवत्was / became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Nārāyaṇa

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma Parva

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?

The colophon signals that the chapter’s focus is Nārāyaṇa’s māhātmya—affirming the supreme divine reality as central to liberation-oriented dharma (mokṣadharma), where devotion and right understanding support the pursuit of mokṣa.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a concluding statement (colophon) marking the completion of a chapter within Śānti Parva’s Mokṣadharma section, identifying its subject as the glorification of Nārāyaṇa and formally closing the chapter.