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Shloka 274

इन्द्रेण वृत्रवधः, ब्रह्महत्याया अनुगमनम्, तथा च विभाजन-निवासविधानम्

Indra’s defeat of Vṛtra; pursuit by Brahmahatyā; allocation of her abodes

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि योगाचारानुवर्णनं नाम चतु:सप्तत्यधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi yogācārānuvārṇanaṃ nāma catuḥsaptatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

अशा प्रकारे श्रीमहाभारताच्या शान्तिपर्वातील मोक्षधर्मपर्वात ‘योगाचारांचे वर्णन’ नावाचा २७४वा अध्याय समाप्त झाला.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma section

योगाचारानुवर्णनम्the description of the practice of yoga

नामnamed; called

चतु:सप्तत्यधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-seventy-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-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?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter; it signals that the chapter’s subject was the exposition of yogic disciplines (yogācāra) within the Mokṣa-dharma portion of the Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a discourse attributed to Bhīṣma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva; the verse functions as an editorial/structural closure identifying the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the section (Mokṣa-dharma), the chapter title, and the chapter number.