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Shloka 280

श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः

Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वृत्रगीतासु अशीत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vṛtragītāsu aśītyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ตอนศานติปรรพ ภาคโมกษธรรม ในหมวดที่เรียกว่า ‘วฤตรคีตา’ บทที่สองร้อยแปดสิบได้สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

वृत्रगीतासुamong/in the songs (chapters) called ‘Vritra-gita’

अशीत्यधिकeighty-plus (i.e., exceeding eighty)

द्विशततमःtwo-hundredth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parvan

Mokṣa-dharma Parvan

Vṛtra-gītā

Character Dynamics

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 teaching-verse but a colophon: it identifies the textual location (Śānti Parvan → Mokṣa-dharma) and labels the chapter as part of the Vṛtra-gītā material, framing the surrounding content as instruction oriented toward liberation and ethical clarity.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter concludes. The colophon signals that Bhīṣma’s discourse (within Mokṣa-dharma) has reached the end of this adhyāya, and it classifies the section under the heading “Vṛtra-gītā,” a named sub-unit within the Mokṣa-dharma discussions.