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Shloka 2331

जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने एकादशाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyādhyātma-sthāne ekādaśādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

இவ்வாறு ஸ்ரீமகாபாரதத்தின் சாந்திபர்வத்தின் மோக்ஷதர்மபர்வத்தில், வார்ஷ்ணேயர் தொடர்புடைய ஆத்மவித்யை (அத்யாத்ம) பிரிவில் இருநூற்று பதினொன்றாம் அத்தியாயம் நிறைவுற்றது.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma-parvan

वार्ष्णेयेin (the section concerning) Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa/descendant of Vṛṣṇi)

आध्यात्मिकस्थानेin the spiritual topic/section (adhyātmika-sthāna)

एकादशाधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-eleventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma

Vārṣṇeya (Vṛṣṇi lineage)

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 not a doctrinal verse but a colophon: it signals the completion of a chapter within Mokṣadharma, framing the preceding material as spiritual instruction (adhyātma) situated in the Śānti Parva’s liberation-oriented discourse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter of Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parva. The colophon formally records the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the internal section (Mokṣadharma), and the chapter number (211).