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Shloka 250

Adhyāya 249 — Mṛtyu-prādurbhāvaḥ (The Manifestation of Death) / Restraint of Tejas and Ordered Saṃhāra

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकानुप्रश्ने पजञ्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukānupraśne pañcāśadadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภายในศานติปรวะ ตอนโมกษธรรม ในบริบทแห่งการซักถามต่อเนื่องของศุกะ บทที่สองร้อยห้าสิบได้สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma section

शुकानुप्रश्नेin the follow-up question(s) of Śuka

पञ्चाशदधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-fiftieth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Mokṣa-dharma Parvan

Śuka

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse; it signals the completion of a chapter situated in the Mokṣa-dharma teachings, whose broader aim is to orient the listener toward liberation through right understanding, disciplined living, and inquiry.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parvan), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the immediate dialogic frame (Śuka’s further inquiry), and then marks the chapter count as the 250th.