Shloka 299

अव्यक्तकालमान-निर्णयः

Measures of Time from the Unmanifest; Creation, Elements, and the Primacy of Mind

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि हंसगीतासमाप्तौ नवनवत्यधिकद्धिशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi haṃsagītāsamāptau navanavatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ଏହିପରି ଶ୍ରୀମହାଭାରତର ଶାନ୍ତିପର୍ବର ମୋକ୍ଷଧର୍ମପର୍ବରେ ‘ହଂସଗୀତା’ ସମାପ୍ତ ହେଲା; ଏଠାରେ ଦୁଇଶେ ନବନବେଁଶତମ (୨୯୯ତମ) ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ ଶେଷ।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

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

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

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

• हंसगीतासमाप्तौ: at the conclusion of the Haṃsa-gītā
• हंसगीतासमाप्तौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हंसगीता-समाप्ति
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• नव: nine
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नवति: ninety
• Type: Noun
• Root: नवति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

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

• द्विशततमः: the two-hundredth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parvan
• Mokṣa-dharma Parvan
• Haṃsa-gītā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals that the Haṃsa-gītā—an instruction situated in Mokṣa-dharma—has concluded. Its ethical-spiritual frame is liberation-oriented dharma, emphasizing the completion of a teaching on self-knowledge and release.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes a sub-teaching within Bhīṣma’s long instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parvan. It marks the end of the Haṃsa-gītā discourse and identifies the chapter count as the 299th.