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Shloka 238

Adhyātma-krama: Indriya–Manas–Buddhi–Ātman Hierarchy and Citta-Prasāda (आध्यात्मक्रमः)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकानुप्रश्ने अष्टात्रिंशदधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukānupraśne aṣṭātriṃśad-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ଇତି ଶ୍ରୀମହାଭାରତେ ଶାନ୍ତିପର୍ବଣି ମୋକ୍ଷଧର୍ମପର୍ବଣି ଶୁକାନୁପ୍ରଶ୍ନେ ଦୁଇଶେ ଅଠତିସତମ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟଃ।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

शुकानुप्रश्नेin (the topic of) Shuka's follow-up question(s)

अष्टात्रिंशत्thirty-eight

अधिकadditional; over and above

द्विशततमःtwo-hundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma (section)

Śuka

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 is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it does not teach a new principle directly, but frames the chapter as part of Mokṣadharma—an ethical-spiritual discourse oriented toward liberation (mokṣa) and the disciplines, attitudes, and insights that support it.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣadharma), and the immediate dialogic setting (Śuka’s follow-up inquiry), and then states that this is the 238th chapter.