Shloka 344
नागैः सह ब्राह्मणस्य अतिथिधर्म-व्रतसंवादः | The Brahmin’s Vow and the Nāgas’ Hospitality Appeal
इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि नारायणीये चतुश्नत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो 5 ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi nārāyaṇīye catuḥṣaṭcatvāriṃśad-adhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「かくして『シュリー・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』の部—における『ナーラーヤニーヤ』、すなわちナーラーヤナの栄光を説く第三百四十四章は終わる。」これは章の完結を告げ、その位置づけを『シャーンティ・パルヴァ』の倫理と解脱の教えの中に示す、正式な奥書である。
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it frames the surrounding teaching as part of Mokṣa-dharma and the Nārāyaṇīya, emphasizing that liberation-oriented ethics and devotion/theology of Nārāyaṇa are the context of the completed chapter.
Vaiśampāyana’s narration reaches a formal chapter close. The text identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the thematic unit (Nārāyaṇīya), and states that the 344th chapter has concluded.