Shloka 194

Śarīrin, Buddhi, and the Limits of Sense-Perception (इन्द्रियबुद्धिशरीरिविचारः)

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारतमें शान्तिपवके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वमें अध्यात्मतत््वका वर्णनविषयक एक सौ चौरानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi antargata-gokṣadharmaparvaṇi adhyātmatattva-varṇana-viṣayaka ekaśata-caturānnavatitamodhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവ്വാന്തർഗതമായ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവ്വത്തിൽ ആത്മതത്ത്വവിവരണവിഷയകമായ നൂറ്റിത്തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിനാലാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्री-महाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्ति-पर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained (within)

गोक्ष-धर्म-पर्वणिin the Goksha-dharma Parva (section)

अध्यात्म-तत्त्व-वर्णन-विषयकःhaving as its subject the description of spiritual truth

एकone

शतhundred

चतुर्-नवतिःninety-four

अध्यायःchapter

पूरःcomplete

अभवत्was/has become

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Gokṣa-dharma-parva (section)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse functions as a colophon indicating that the chapter’s focus is adhyātma-tattva—clarifying the truth of the Self and spiritual reality—framed within dharma instruction in the Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an editorial/narrative closing line marking the completion of a chapter in the Śānti Parva, within the Gokṣa-dharma section, after Bhīṣma’s discourse.