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Shloka 292

Vasiṣṭha on Saṃsāra, Guṇas, and Misattributed Agency

Mahābhārata 12.292

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि पराशरगीतायां द्विनवत्यधिकद्वधिशततमो<5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें पराशरगीताविषयक दो सौ बानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi parāśaragītāyāṃ dvinavatyadhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि पराशरगीतायां द्विनवत्यधिकद्विशततमोऽध्यायः॥

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीin the venerable/auspicious (work)

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

शान्ति-पर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्म-पर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

पराशर-गीतायाम्in the Parashara-gita

द्वि-नवति-अधिक-द्वि-शत-तमःthe two-hundred-ninety-second (chapter)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Mokṣa-dharma Parvan

Parāśara

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it marks the completion of the Parāśara-gītā portion within the Mokṣa-dharma section of the Śānti Parvan. Its significance is structural—signaling that a unit of liberation-oriented instruction has concluded within the Mahābhārata’s broader ethical framework.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the chapter and the embedded discourse attributed to the sage Parāśara. In the Śānti Parvan’s post-war setting, such closures punctuate extended teachings on dharma and liberation, indicating a transition to the next instructional segment.