Mahabharata — Shanti Parva, Shloka 2331

जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वार्ष्णेया ध्यात्मक थने एकादशाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vārṣṇeyādhyātma-sthāne ekādaśādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Sa gayon nagtatapos ang ika-211 kabanata ng Mokṣadharma sa loob ng Śānti Parva ng Śrī Mahābhārata, sa bahaging tumatalakay sa aral na adhyātma na kaugnay ng angkan ng Vārṣṇeya. (Pangwakas na kolofon)

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable 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-parvan
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वार्ष्णेये: in (the section concerning) Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa/descendant of Vṛṣṇi)
• वार्ष्णेये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वार्ष्णेय
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: in the spiritual topic/section (adhyātmika-sthāna)
• आध्यात्मिकस्थाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आध्यात्मिकस्थान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकादशाधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-eleventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकादशाधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣadharma
• Vārṣṇeya (Vṛṣṇi lineage)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a doctrinal verse but a colophon: it signals the completion of a chapter within Mokṣadharma, framing the preceding material as spiritual instruction (adhyātma) situated in the Śānti Parva’s liberation-oriented discourse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter of Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parva. The colophon formally records the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the internal section (Mokṣadharma), and the chapter number (211).