Shloka 336

अध्याय ३३७ — ज्ञानमार्ग-वैविध्यप्रश्नः तथा व्यासस्य नारायणोद्भवकथा

Systems of Knowledge and Vyāsa’s Nārāyaṇa-Origin

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि नारायणीये षट्त्रिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi nārāyaṇīye ṣaṭtriṃśad-adhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారతము శాంతిపర్వములోని మోక్షధర్మపర్వములో, నారాయణీయ భాగములో, మూడు వందల ముప్పై ఆరవ అధ్యాయము సమాప్తము.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

नारायणीयेin the Narayaniya (subsection)

षट्त्रिंशत्thirty-six

अधिकadditional; over and above

त्रिशततमःthree-hundredth (ordinal)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

देव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Nārāyaṇīya

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. Its function is to locate the preceding teaching within the Mahābhārata’s framework—Śānti Parva → Mokṣa-dharma → Nārāyaṇīya—and to signal the completion of a chapter, emphasizing the text’s organized transmission of dharma and liberation-oriented instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The discourse segment concludes. The colophon formally closes the chapter and identifies its placement in the larger compilation, serving as a scribal/editorial marker rather than advancing plot or dialogue.