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Shloka 174

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादक थने चतु:सप्तत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi brāhmaṇa-senajit-saṃvāda-kathane catuḥsaptatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

இவ்வாறு ஸ்ரீமஹாபாரதத்தின் சாந்திபர்வத்தில், குறிப்பாக மோக்ஷதர்மப் பகுதியில், பிராமணனும் அரசன் சேனஜித்தும் நடத்திய உரையாடலைக் கூறும் நூற்று எழுபத்து நான்காவது அத்தியாயம் நிறைவுற்றது.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथनेin the narration of the dialogue between the Brahmana and Senajit

स्थानेin the place/section

चतुःसप्तत्यधिकशततमःone hundred and seventy-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)

Brāhmaṇa

King Senajit

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter in the Mokṣa-dharma portion of Śānti Parva. Its ethical-literary function is to frame the preceding instruction as part of a liberation-oriented discourse (mokṣa-dharma), presented through a didactic dialogue between a Brahmin teacher-figure and King Senajit.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the dialogue topic (Brāhmaṇa–Senajit conversation), and the chapter count (the 174th chapter), signaling a formal end to that unit of teaching.