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Shloka 357

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ucchavṛttyupākhyāne saptapañcāśadadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारताच्या शान्तिपर्वातील मोक्षधर्मपर्वात उज्छवृत्ती-उपाख्यानाचा तीनशे सत्तावन्नावा अध्याय।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma section

उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्यानेin the narrative (upākhyāna) of Ucchavṛtti

सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमःthree-hundred-and-fifty-seventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Ucchavṛtti (as an epithet/title of the subject of the upākhyāna)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon, signaling the close of a Mokṣa-dharma episode. By naming ‘Ucchavṛtti,’ it foregrounds an ethical ideal praised in Mokṣa-dharma: austere, non-possessive living (subsisting by gleaning) as a support for inner discipline and liberation-oriented dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not advancing the story but formally concluding it: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the specific embedded tale (Ucchavṛtti-upākhyāna), and marks the end of the chapter count given here.