Shloka 323

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि पावकाध्ययनं नामैकविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi pāvakādhyayanaṃ nāmaikaviṃśatyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Ainsi, dans le Śrī Mahābhārata, au sein du Śānti Parva et plus précisément dans la section Mokṣadharma, s’achève le chapitre intitulé « L’étude / la récitation concernant Pāvaka (le Feu) », qui est le trois-cent-vingt-et-unième. Ce colophon marque la clôture d’une suite d’enseignements attribuée à Bhīṣma, inscrivant le propos dans l’enquête éthique et libératrice du Mokṣadharma.

Word by Word

itithus; so

śrīmahābhāratein the venerable Mahābhārata

śāntiparvaṇiin the Śānti-parvan

mokṣadharmaparvaṇiin the Mokṣadharma-parvan

pāvakādhyayanamthe chapter/section called 'Pāvaka-adhyayana' (study/discourse on Pāvaka/Fire)

nāmaby name; called

eka-viṃśati-adhika-tri-śatatamaḥthe three-hundred-and-twenty-first (i.e., 300 + 20 + 1)

adhyāyaḥchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Pāvaka (Agni/Fire)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a Mokṣa-dharma chapter titled “Pāvaka-adhyayana,” framing the preceding material as part of Bhīṣma’s liberation-oriented instruction within Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the chapter title and number, functioning as an editorial/narrative boundary marker.