Shloka 285

जनक–पराशर संवादः — वर्ण-गोत्र-धर्मविचारः

Janaka–Parāśara: Varṇa, Gotra, and Dharma Inquiry

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि पाज्चभौतिके पज्चाशीत्यधिकद्वधिशततमो<5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi pañcabhāutike pañcāśītyadhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

ဤသို့ဖြင့် သီရိမဟာဘာရတ၌၊ ရှာန္တိပရဝ၌နှင့် အထူးသဖြင့် မောက္ခဓမ္မ အပိုင်း၌၊ ပဉ္စမဟာဘူတ (ပစ္စည်းဓာတ် ငါးပါး) အယူဝါဒကို ဆွေးနွေးသော အခန်း ၂၈၅ သည် ပြီးဆုံးလေသည်။

Word by Word

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

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

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

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

• पञ्चभौतिके: in (the chapter) concerning the five elements
• पञ्चभौतिके: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चभौतिक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशीत्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-eighty-fifth
• पञ्चाशीत्यधिकद्विशततमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चाशीत्यधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This closing colophon signals that the chapter’s instruction concerns pañcabhāutika doctrine—reflection on the five great elements as a means to understand embodied existence and cultivate detachment conducive to mokṣa.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding the chapter: it formally locates the discourse within Śānti Parvan’s Mokṣa-dharma section and marks the completion of Adhyāya 285.