Shloka 202

Varāha-avatāra: Viṣṇu’s subterranean intervention and the cosmic nāda (Śānti-parva 202)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि मनुबृहस्पतिसंवादे दव्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi manubṛhaspati-saṃvāde dvya-dhika-dvi-śatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारत के शान्तिपर्व में, मोक्षधर्मपर्व के अन्तर्गत, मनु-बृहस्पति संवाद का दो सौ दूसरा अध्याय समाप्त हुआ।

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the holy Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

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

• द्व्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-second
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्व्यधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parvan
• Mokṣa-dharma Parvan
• Manu
• Bṛhaspati

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals that the chapter’s instruction—framed as a dialogue between Manu and Bṛhaspati within Mokṣa-dharma—has concluded, situating the teaching within the Mahābhārata’s ethical and liberation-oriented discourse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is marking the end of Adhyāya 202 in the Śānti Parvan’s Mokṣa-dharma section, specifically the portion presented as the Manu–Bṛhaspati conversation, as recounted under Bhīṣma’s larger instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira.