Shloka 269

तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः

Instruction on the Cessation of Craving

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि गोकपिलीये एकोनसप्तत्यधिकद्वधिशततमो<5 ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi gokapilīye ekonasaptatyadhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

Sa gayon, sa Śrī Mahābhārata, sa loob ng Śānti Parva at lalo na sa bahaging Mokṣa-dharma, nagwakas ang kabanatang tinatawag na Gokapilīya—ito ang ika-269 na kabanata. (Ito’y kolopon na tanda ng pagtatapos ng kabanata, hindi isang taludtod na aral na binigkas ng tauhan.)

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-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 (section)
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• गोकपिलीये: in (the section) called Gokapilīya
• गोकपिलीये: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गोकपिलीय
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकोनसप्तत्यधिकद्विशततमः: the 269th (two-hundred-and-sixty-ninth)
• एकोनसप्तत्यधिकद्विशततमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकोनसप्तत्यधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

कपिल उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Gokapilīya (Gokāpila-upākhyāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon that signals the completion of the chapter; it does not itself present a new teaching. Its function is to locate the discourse within Śānti Parva’s Mokṣa-dharma section and to mark the end of the Gokapilīya episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative/discourse attributed to the Gokapilīya section has concluded, and the text formally closes the chapter by naming the larger work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the chapter count (269th).