Shloka 174

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादक थने चतु:सप्तत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi brāhmaṇa-senajit-saṃvāda-kathane catuḥsaptatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے موکش دھرم پَرو میں برہمن اور راجا سینجِت کے مکالمے کو بیان کرنے والا ایک سو چوہترویں باب اختتام کو پہنچتا ہے۔

Word by Word

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

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

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

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

• ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथने: in the narration of the dialogue between the Brahmana and Senajit
• ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्राह्मणसेनजित्संवादकथन
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• स्थाने: in the place/section
• स्थाने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• चतुःसप्तत्यधिकशततमः: one hundred and seventy-fourth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुःसप्तत्यधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)
• Brāhmaṇa
• King Senajit

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon marking the close of a chapter in the Mokṣa-dharma portion of Śānti Parva. Its ethical-literary function is to frame the preceding instruction as part of a liberation-oriented discourse (mokṣa-dharma), presented through a didactic dialogue between a Brahmin teacher-figure and King Senajit.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the dialogue topic (Brāhmaṇa–Senajit conversation), and the chapter count (the 174th chapter), signaling a formal end to that unit of teaching.