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Shloka 344

नागैः सह ब्राह्मणस्य अतिथिधर्म-व्रतसंवादः | The Brahmin’s Vow and the Nāgas’ Hospitality Appeal

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि नारायणीये चतुश्नत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो 5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वमें नाययणकी महिमाविषयक तीन सौ चौवालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi nārāyaṇīye catuḥṣaṭcatvāriṃśad-adhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ശാന്തിപർവ്വാന്തർഗതമായ മോക്ഷധർമ്മപർവ്വത്തിൽ, നാരായണീയഭാഗത്തിൽ—നാരായണന്റെ മഹിമയെ വർണ്ണിക്കുന്ന മൂന്നുനൂറ്റി നാല്പത്തിനാലാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Moksha-dharma section

नारायणीयेin the Narayaniya (portion)

चतुश्चत्वारिंशत्forty-four

अधिकover and above; plus

त्रिशततमःthree-hundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Nārāyaṇīya

Nārāyaṇa

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.