Shanti Parva Adhyaya 214 Shloka 214 - Mahabharata | Telugu | Vedapath

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Shloka 214

Adhyāya 214: Tapas Redefined—Perpetual Discipline, Hospitality, and the Ethics of Eating (तपः-निरूपणम्, विघसाशी-अतिथिप्रिय-धर्मः)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने चतुर्दशाधिकद्विशततमो<5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyādhyātmakathane caturdaśādhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత శాంతిపర్వాంతర్గత మోక్షధర్మపర్వంలో వార్ష్ణేయుడు (శ్రీకృష్ణుడు) సంబంధమైన అధ్యాత్మకథన విషయక రెండువందల పద్నాలుగవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమైంది।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

वार्ष्णेयेconcerning the Vārṣṇeya (Krishna)

आध्यात्मिकथनेin the spiritual discourse/statement

चतुर्दशाधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-fourteenth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)

Vārṣṇeya (Śrī Kṛṣṇa)

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 śloka: it signals that the chapter’s core content concerns adhyātma (inner spiritual knowledge) and mokṣa-dharma (liberation-oriented dharma), framed as a discourse connected with Vārṣṇeya—Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing the 214th chapter of the Mokṣa-dharma portion within Śānti Parva. It functions as an editorial/narrative marker indicating completion of that chapter’s discussion.