Shloka 359

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttyupākhyāne ekonaṣaṣṭyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत के शान्तिपर्व के मोक्षधर्मपर्व में ‘उज्छवृत्ति-उपाख्यान’ नामक प्रसंग का यह तीन सौ साठवाँ अध्याय समाप्त हुआ।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered 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

• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: in the narrative (upakhyana) of Ucchavritti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमः: three hundred and fifty-ninth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Ujjha-vṛtti Upākhyāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the closure of a teaching unit in the Mokṣa-dharma section. Its function is to frame the preceding instruction as part of a structured ethical-spiritual discourse on dharma and liberation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally concludes an embedded illustrative story (upākhyāna) titled “Ujjha-vṛtti” within the Śānti Parvan’s Mokṣa-dharma portion, and it identifies the chapter number as the 360th.