Shloka 204

अव्यक्त–व्यक्त–कारणकार्यविवेकः

Avyakta–Vyakta and Causality: Discrimination of Field and Knower

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि मनुबृहस्पतिसंवादे चतुरधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

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

Translation

Así, en el Śrī Mahābhārata, dentro del Śānti Parva—en particular, en la sección Mokṣa-dharma—concluye el diálogo entre Manu y Bṛhaspati: el capítulo doscientos cuatro. (Este colofón final señala la culminación de un episodio de enseñanza enmarcado como discurso de dharma orientado a la liberación, preservado dentro de la instrucción mayor de Bhishma sobre la paz y la recta conducta.)

Word by Word

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

• 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 Mokṣa-dharma section (parvan)
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

• चतुरधिकद्विशततमः: two-hundred-and-fourth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुरधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)
• Manu
• Bṛhaspati

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it marks the completion of a Mokṣa-dharma chapter presented as a dialogue between Manu and Bṛhaspati, situating the teaching within the Śānti Parva’s broader ethical and liberation-oriented instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing the chapter: it announces that, within the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parva and its Mokṣa-dharma section, the Manu–Bṛhaspati conversation has reached the end of the 204th chapter.