Shloka 286

अध्याय २८६ — पराशर-उपदेशः

Ethical Restraint, Mortality, and Karma

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि समड्रनारदसंवादे षडशीत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi samaḍ-nārada-saṃvāde ṣaḍaśīty-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਮਹਾਭਾਰਤ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਾਂਤਿ ਪਰਵ ਦੇ ਮੋਖਸ਼ਧਰਮ ਪਰਵ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਮਡ੍ਰ-ਨਾਰਦ ਸੰਵਾਦ—ਦੋ ਸੌ ਛਿਆਸੀਵਾਂ ਅਧਿਆਇ—ਸਮਾਪਤ ਹੋਇਆ।

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the (holy) Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• 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

• सनत्सुजात: in (the context of) Sanatsujāta
• सनत्सुजात: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सनत्सुजात
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• नारद: in (the context of) Nārada
• नारद: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नारद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• संवादे: in the dialogue
• संवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: संवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• षडशीत्यधिक: having eighty-six more (i.e., 186th)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षडशीत्यधिक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• द्विशततमः: two-hundredth (ordinal element in chapter numbering)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

समड़ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parvan
• Mokṣa-dharma Parvan (section)
• Samaḍ
• Nārada

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a Mokṣa-dharma teaching episode framed as a dialogue between Samaḍ and the sage Nārada, situating the instruction within the Śānti Parvan’s ethical and liberation-focused discourse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing the chapter: it formally announces that the Samaḍ–Nārada conversation has concluded and identifies the location of this material within the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parvan, Mokṣa-dharma section, as chapter 286.