Shloka 2331

जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने एकादशाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyādhyātma-sthāne ekādaśādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the two-hundred-and-eleventh chapter in the Mokṣadharma section of the Śānti Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, in the subsection concerning the spiritual teaching connected with the Vārṣṇeya lineage. (Colophon)

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokṣadharma-parvan
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वार्ष्णेये: in (the section concerning) Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa/descendant of Vṛṣṇi)
• वार्ष्णेये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वार्ष्णेय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: in the spiritual topic/section (adhyātmika-sthāna)
• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आध्यात्मिकस्थान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकादशाधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-eleventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकादशाधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣadharma
• Vārṣṇeya (Vṛṣṇi lineage)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a doctrinal verse but a colophon: it signals the completion of a chapter within Mokṣadharma, framing the preceding material as spiritual instruction (adhyātma) situated in the Śānti Parva’s liberation-oriented discourse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter of Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parva. The colophon formally records the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the internal section (Mokṣadharma), and the chapter number (211).