Shloka 341

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि नारायणीये एकचत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वमें नारययणकी महिमाविषयक तीन सौ इकतालीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

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

Translation

Assim termina, no Śānti Parva do Śrī Mahābhārata—na seção Mokṣa-dharma, na porção Nārāyaṇīya—o capítulo trezentos e quarenta e um, que proclama a grandeza de Nārāyaṇa.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Moksha-dharma section

नारायणीयेin the Narayaniya (portion relating to Narayana)

एकचत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमःthree hundred forty-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Nārāyaṇa

Nārāyaṇīya

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse signals the completion of a chapter whose subject is the mahimā (glory) of Nārāyaṇa, framing liberation-oriented dharma (mokṣa-dharma) in a devotional-theological key within the Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an editorial/structural closing statement (chapter-end colophon) marking that the Nārāyaṇīya portion’s three-hundred-and-forty-first chapter has ended within the Mokṣa-dharma section of the Śānti Parva.