Shloka 299

अव्यक्तकालमान-निर्णयः

Measures of Time from the Unmanifest; Creation, Elements, and the Primacy of Mind

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि हंसगीतासमाप्तौ नवनवत्यधिकद्धिशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi haṃsagītāsamāptau navanavatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Kaya, sa Śrī Mahābhārata, sa loob ng Śānti Parva at ng bahaging Mokṣa-dharma, nagtatapos ang aral na tinatawag na Haṃsa-gītā; dito nagwawakas ang ika-299 na kabanata. Ito ay pormal na pangwakas na pahayag (colophon) na nagmamarka sa pagtatapos ng isang espirituwal at etikal na turo hinggil sa paglaya, sa pagtuturo ni Bhīṣma.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• 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 Mokṣa-dharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• हंसगीतासमाप्तौ: at the conclusion of the Haṃsa-gītā
• हंसगीतासमाप्तौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हंसगीता-समाप्ति
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• नव: nine
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नवति: ninety
• Type: Noun
• Root: नवति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: additional; over and above
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• द्विशततमः: the two-hundredth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parvan
• Mokṣa-dharma Parvan
• Haṃsa-gītā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it signals that the Haṃsa-gītā—an instruction situated in Mokṣa-dharma—has concluded. Its ethical-spiritual frame is liberation-oriented dharma, emphasizing the completion of a teaching on self-knowledge and release.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes a sub-teaching within Bhīṣma’s long instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parvan. It marks the end of the Haṃsa-gītā discourse and identifies the chapter count as the 299th.