Shloka 267

मोक्षोपाय-निर्णयः

Determination of the Means to Liberation

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि द्युमत्सेनसत्यवत्संवादे सप्तषष्ट्यधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi dyumatsena-satyavat-saṃvāde saptaṣaṣṭyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

かくして『聖マハーバーラタ』の「シャーンティ・パルヴァ」、とりわけ「モークシャダルマ」章において、デュマトセーナとサティヤヴァトの対話は終わり、第二百六十七章はここに結了する。

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• 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

• द्युमत्सेनसत्यवत्संवादे: in the dialogue of Dyumatsena and Satyavat
• द्युमत्सेनसत्यवत्संवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्युमत्सेनसत्यवत्संवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सप्तषष्ट्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-sixty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तषष्ट्यधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

हुमत्सेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣadharma Parva
• Dyumatsena
• Satyavat

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line itself does not state a teaching; it is a colophon. Its function is to signal that the preceding discourse—framed as Dyumatsena’s dialogue with Satyavat—belongs to Mokṣadharma, i.e., instruction oriented toward liberation and higher dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is formally closing a chapter: it announces that, within the Śānti Parva’s Mokṣadharma section, the Dyumatsena–Satyavat conversation has reached the end of the 267th chapter.