Shloka 316

नारद–शुक संवादः (Nārada–Śuka Dialogue): Tyāga, Saṃyama, and Vyakta–Avyakta Viveka

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवादे षोडशाधिकत्रिशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi yājñavalkya-janaka-saṃvāde ṣoḍaśādhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

อิติ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภายในศานติปรรพ ส่วนโมกษธรรมปรรพ ในบทสนทนาระหว่างยาชญวัลกยะกับชนก: บทที่สามร้อยสิบหก

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokṣadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवादे: in the dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka
• याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• षोडशाधिकत्रिशततमः: the three-hundred-and-sixteenth
• षोडशाधिकत्रिशततमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षोडशाधिकत्रिशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣadharma Parva
• Yājñavalkya
• Janaka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter in the Mokṣadharma portion of Śānti Parva. It frames the teaching context as a dialogue between the sage Yājñavalkya and King Janaka—an archetypal setting for instruction on liberation (mokṣa), right conduct (dharma), and the integration of wisdom with worldly responsibility.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding the chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣadharma), and the specific conversational frame (Yājñavalkya–Janaka dialogue), then states the chapter number as the 316th.