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:

Transliteration

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

Translation

ဝိုင်ရှမ္ပာယနက ပြောသည်– “ဤသို့ဖြင့် သြရီမဟာဘာရတ၌၊ ရှာန္တိပရဝအတွင်း—အထူးသဖြင့် မောက္ခဓမ္မ အပိုင်း—နာရာယဏီယ (Nārāyaṇīya) အခန်း၊ နာရာယဏ၏ မဟိမကို ဖော်ပြသော သုံးရာလေးဆယ်လေးမြောက် အခန်းသည် ပြီးဆုံး၏။” ဤသည်မှာ အခန်းပြီးဆုံးကြောင်းနှင့် ရှာန္တိပရဝ၏ ဓမ္မနှင့် မောက္ခသဘောတရားများအတွင်း၌ ၎င်း၏ တည်နေရာကို သတ်မှတ်ပေးသော တရားဝင် အဆုံးသတ်စာတမ်း (colophon) ဖြစ်သည်။

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the (holy) Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

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

• नारायणीये: in the Narayaniya (portion)
• नारायणीये: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नारायणीया
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• चतुश्चत्वारिंशत्: forty-four
• Type: Noun
• Root: चतुश्चत्वारिंशत्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: over and above; plus
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• त्रिशततमः: three-hundredth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रिशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Nārāyaṇīya
• Nārāyaṇa

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.