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Shloka 265

यज्ञेऽहिंसा-प्राधान्यम्

Primacy of Non-Harm in Sacrificial Ethics

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि विचख्नुगीतायां पज्चषष्ट्यधिकद्धिशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत मोक्षधर्मपर्वमें विचख्नुगीताविषयक दी सौ पैंसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vicakhnu-gītāyāṃ pañcaṣaṣṭy-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے تحت موکش دھرم پَرو میں ‘وِچکھنو-گیتا’ سے متعلق دو سو پینسٹھواں باب اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma-parvan

विचख्नुगीतायाम्in the (section called) Vicakhnu-gītā

पञ्चषष्ट्यधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-sixty-fifth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Vicakhnu-gītā

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon (chapter-ending notice). It does not present a new teaching; it formally signals that the Vicakhnu-gītā discourse within the Mokṣa-dharma portion of Śānti Parva has concluded.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the specific discourse title (Vicakhnu-gītā), then states that the 265th chapter has ended.