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Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि मनुबृहस्पतिसंवादे एकाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi manubṛhaspati-saṃvāde ekādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Śānti Parva—specifically the Mokṣa-dharma section—ends the dialogue between Manu and Bṛhaspati: the two-hundred-and-first chapter. (This is a concluding colophon marking the close of the chapter, not a new doctrinal verse.)

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokshadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मनुबृहस्पतिसंवादे: in the dialogue of Manu and Brihaspati
• मनुबृहस्पतिसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनुबृहस्पतिसंवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• एकाधिकद्विशततमः: two-hundred-and-first
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकाधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Manu
• Bṛhaspati

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon: it does not add a new teaching, but signals that the preceding instruction—framed as the Manu–Bṛhaspati dialogue within Mokṣa-dharma—has concluded for this chapter.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma’s discourse (as the overarching speaker in Śānti Parva) reaches the end of a chapter presented as a dialogue between Manu and Bṛhaspati; the text formally closes Adhyāya 201.