Shloka 263
Adhyāya 262: Śabda-brahman, Para-brahman, and the Ethics of Tyāga
Kapila–Syūmaraśmi Saṃvāda
इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि तुलाधारजाजलिसंवादे त्रिषष्ट्यधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi tulādhāra-jājali-saṃvāde triṣaṣṭyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Śānti Parva and its Mokṣa-dharma section, the dialogue between Tulādhāra and Jājali—this being the two-hundred-and-sixty-third chapter.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse itself does not state a new doctrine; it marks the completion of the Tulādhāra–Jājali teaching unit within Mokṣa-dharma, whose broader thrust is liberation-oriented ethics—inner purity and right conduct as the basis of spiritual progress.
The text is closing a chapter: Bhīṣma’s discourse (within Śānti Parva) has presented the dialogue between Tulādhāra and Jājali, and this line formally signals that the chapter has ended and identifies its placement in the Mahābhārata’s structure.