Shloka 174

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादक थने चतु:सप्तत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi brāhmaṇa-senajit-saṃvāda-kathane catuḥsaptatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവ്വത്തിലെ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവ്വത്തിൽ ബ്രാഹ്മണനും രാജാവ് സേനജിത്തും തമ്മിലുള്ള സംവാദം വിവരിക്കുന്ന നൂറ്റി എഴുപത്തിനാലാം അധ്യായം സമാപിക്കുന്നു.

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

• ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथने: in the narration of the dialogue between the Brahmana and Senajit
• ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथन
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• स्थाने: in the place/section
• स्थाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• चतुःसप्तत्यधिकशततमः: one hundred and seventy-fourth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुःसप्तत्यधिकशततम
• 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 (section)
• Brāhmaṇa
• King Senajit

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter in the Mokṣa-dharma portion of Śānti Parva. Its ethical-literary function is to frame the preceding instruction as part of a liberation-oriented discourse (mokṣa-dharma), presented through a didactic dialogue between a Brahmin teacher-figure and King Senajit.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the dialogue topic (Brāhmaṇa–Senajit conversation), and the chapter count (the 174th chapter), signaling a formal end to that unit of teaching.