Shloka 247

कामद्रुम-रूपकः तथा शरीर-पुर-रूपकः

The Desire-Tree and the Body-as-City Metaphors

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकानुप्रश्ने सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukānupraśne saptacatvāriṁśad-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو میں، موکش دھرم پَرو کے اندر، شُک کے استفسار کے ضمن میں دو سو سینتالیسواں باب اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable 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

• शुकानुप्रश्ने: in (the topic of) Shuka's follow-up question(s)
• शुकानुप्रश्ने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शुकानुप्रश्न
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमः: the 247th
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva (section)
• Śuka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is not a doctrinal verse but a colophon: it formally signals the completion of a chapter within the Mokṣa-dharma portion of the Śānti Parva, framing the surrounding material as liberation-oriented instruction presented in the setting of Śuka’s questioning.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: the narrator/editorial voice marks that the discourse connected with Śuka’s inquiry has reached the end of the 247th chapter in the Mokṣa-dharma section of the Śānti Parva.