Shloka 232

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें शुकदेवजीका अनुप्रश्रविषयक दो सौ बत्तीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi antargate mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukadevasya anuprāśrava-viṣayakaḥ dviśata-dvātriṁśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

Так завершается двести тридцать вторая глава раздела Мокшадхарма в Шанти-парве священной «Махабхараты», посвящённая Шуке-деве и теме внимательного слушания и вопрошания.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner / by this way

श्रीमहाthe revered (Mahā-) (as part of a title)

भारतMahābhārata

शान्तिof peace (Śānti-)

पर्वin the Parva/section

अन्तर्गतincluded within

मोक्षधर्मin the Mokṣadharma (section on liberation-dharma)

पर्वin the Parva/section

शुकदेवजीof Śukadeva

अनुप्रश्रविषयकconcerning Anupraśrava (as the topic)

द्विशतtwo hundred

द्वात्रिंशत्thirty-two

अध्यायchapter

सम्पूर्णcompleted

अभवत्was / became

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma Parva

Śukadeva

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse; it signals that the chapter’s subject concerns Śukadeva and the theme of anuprāśrava—how liberating knowledge is properly received through attentive hearing and thoughtful inquiry—within the Mokṣadharma teachings.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator marks the formal completion of the 232nd chapter of the Mokṣadharma section inside the Śānti Parva of the Mahābhārata, indicating the chapter’s topic and its placement in the larger work.