Shloka 225

प्रलय-प्रक्रिया (Pralaya Process) — Guṇa-Withdrawal and Pratisaṃcara

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि श्रीसंनिधानो नाम पजञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śrīsaṃnidhāno nāma pañcaviṃśatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یہاں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے موکش دھرم پَرو میں ‘شری سنّিধان’ نامی دو سو پچیسواں باب اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so (end-quotation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• 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

• श्रीसंनिधानः: the venerable (chapter) 'Sannidhana' / 'Presence'
• श्रीसंनिधानः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: संनिधान
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नाम: named; by name
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नाम

• पञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth
• पञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Śrīsaṃnidhāna (chapter title)

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 the Śānti Parva; it signals a transition rather than presenting a doctrinal verse, emphasizing the text’s organization around dharma and liberation themes.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter titled “Śrīsaṃnidhāna” is being formally concluded within the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parva (Mokṣa-dharma section).