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Shloka 230

Vyaktāvyakta-Viveka and Nivṛtti as Paramā Gati

Manifest–Unmanifest Discrimination and the Supreme Path of Withdrawal

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने दशाधिकद्वधिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyā dhyātmakathane daśādhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവത്തിലെ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവത്തിൽ, വാർഷ്ണേയ-ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട അധ്യാത്മസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ, ഇരുനൂറ്റി പത്താമത്തെ അധ്യായം സമാപ്തം।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣa-dharma section

वार्ष्णेयेin (the topic of) Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa, descendant of Vṛṣṇi)

अध्यात्मिकस्थानेin the spiritual topic/section (adhyātmika-sthāna)

दशाधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-tenth (chapter)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Vārṣṇeya (Vṛṣṇi clan)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals that the chapter’s core content belongs to Mokṣa-dharma—ethical and spiritual instruction oriented toward liberation (mokṣa) and inner realization (adhyātma).

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter within Śānti Parva. It formally marks the end of Adhyāya 210 in the Mokṣa-dharma section, identifying the chapter’s topic as an adhyātma-oriented teaching connected with the Vārṣṇeya context.