Shloka 356

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वमें उज्छवृत्तिका उपाख्यानविषयक तीन सौ छप्पनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārata-śāntiparva-antargata-gokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttikā-upākhyāna-viṣayakaḥ trīśata-ṣaṭpañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

Ainsi s’achève le trois-cent-cinquante-sixième chapitre du Śānti Parva du Śrī Mahābhārata, dans la section appelée Gokṣa-dharma Parva, consacré au récit exemplaire (upākhyāna) d’Ujjhavṛttikā. Ce colophon final marque l’achèvement de l’enseignement du dharma transmis par l’exemple narratif de ce chapitre.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्रीमहाभारतम्the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained

गोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Goksha-dharma Parva (section)

उज्छवृत्तिकायाःof Ucchavrittika (name/title)

उपाख्यानof the episode; of the tale

विषयकconcerning; having as its subject

त्रिशतthree hundred

षट्six

पञ्चाशत्तमःfiftieth (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; concluded

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Gokṣadharma Parva

Ujjhavṛttikā

Bhīṣma

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals that the chapter’s dharma-instruction has been delivered through the Ujjhavṛttikā upākhyāna, emphasizing the Mahābhārata’s method of teaching ethics via illustrative stories.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is formally closing the chapter: it states that within the Śānti Parva, in the Gokṣadharma section, the chapter concerning the Ujjhavṛttikā tale has been completed, with Bhīṣma as the speaker in the surrounding discourse.