Shloka 357

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ucchavṛttyupākhyāne saptapañcāśadadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Śānti Parva—specifically the Mokṣa-dharma section—this concludes the episode known as the ‘Upākhyāna of Ucchavṛtti (the one who lives by gleaning).’ Here ends the three-hundred-and-fifty-seventh chapter (i.e., the 357th adhyāya).

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quotation marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति
• Form: Avyaya

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

• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: in the narrative (upākhyāna) of Ucchavṛtti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्ति-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमः: three-hundred-and-fifty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तपञ्चाशत्-अधिक-त्रिशत-तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Ucchavṛtti (as an epithet/title of the subject of the upākhyāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon, signaling the close of a Mokṣa-dharma episode. By naming ‘Ucchavṛtti,’ it foregrounds an ethical ideal praised in Mokṣa-dharma: austere, non-possessive living (subsisting by gleaning) as a support for inner discipline and liberation-oriented dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not advancing the story but formally concluding it: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the specific embedded tale (Ucchavṛtti-upākhyāna), and marks the end of the chapter count given here.