Shloka 216

इन्द्र–बलि संवादः

The Dialogue of Indra and Bali on Fortune, Humility, and Restraint

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने षोडशाधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyādhyātmathe ṣoḍaśādhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Demikianlah berakhir Bab ke-216 dalam bahagian Mokṣadharma di dalam Śānti Parva daripada Mahābhārata yang mulia, pada bahagian ajaran rohani yang berkaitan dengan Vārṣṇeya. Ini ialah kolofon penutup bab, bukan suatu ayat doktrin.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Moksha-dharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वार्ष्णेये: in (the topic concerning) the Vrishni-descendant (Krishna)
• वार्ष्णेये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वार्ष्णेय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: in the spiritual topic/section
• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आध्यात्मिकस्थान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• षोडशाधिकद्विशततमः: two-hundred-and-sixteenth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षोडशाधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣadharma (section)
• Vārṣṇeya (Vṛṣṇi lineage; associated with Kṛṣṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon (chapter-ending marker), not a teaching verse. It signals that the chapter’s discussion—placed within Mokṣadharma, the Mahābhārata’s liberation-oriented discourse—has concluded.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter in Bhīṣma’s long instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parva. The colophon identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣadharma), and the chapter number (216).