Shloka 330

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकाभिपतने त्रिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukābhipatane triṃśad-adhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവത്തിലെ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവത്തിൽ ‘ശുകാഭിപതനം’ വിഷയകമായ മൂന്നുനൂറ്റി മുപ്പതാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

शुकाभिपतनेin (the episode/chapter on) Shuka's descent/approach

त्रिंशत्thirty

अधिकadditional; over and above

त्रिशततमःthree-hundredth (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Mokṣa-dharma Parvan

Śuka

Character Dynamics

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; its function is to locate the surrounding teachings within the Mokṣa-dharma framework—ethical and spiritual duties oriented toward liberation—and to mark the completion of the chapter’s unit of instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter in the Śānti Parvan’s Mokṣa-dharma section, identifying it as the 330th chapter and naming its topic as Śuka’s ‘abhipatana’ (his descent/approach), thereby signaling a transition to the next chapter.