Shloka 200

प्रजापतयः देवगणाश्च दिशि-दिशि स्थिताः ऋषयः

Prajāpatis, Deva-Groups, and the Ṛṣis Assigned to the Directions

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें जापकका उपाख्यानविषयक दो सौवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Śāntiparvaṇi antargate Mokṣadharmaparvaṇi Jāpakopākhyāna-viṣayaka dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ.

Translation

Demikian berakhir bab ke-200 dalam bagian Mokṣadharma di dalam Śānti Parva dari Śrī Mahābhārata, yang membahas kisah (upākhyāna) tentang Jāpaka.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

प्रकारम्manner; way

श्री-महाभारतम्the revered Mahabharata

शान्ति-पर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded; contained (within)

मोक्ष-धर्म-पर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

जापक-उपाख्यान-विषयकःconcerning the tale of Jāpaka

द्वि-शततमःtwo-hundredth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted; finished

अभवत्was; became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīmahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma Parva

Jāpaka

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 Mokṣadharma chapter, indicating that the preceding material used the Jāpaka episode as an instructive narrative within Bhīṣma’s broader teaching on liberation-oriented dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the two-hundredth chapter of the Mokṣadharma section inside the Śānti Parva, stating that the chapter concerning the Jāpaka episode has ended.