Shloka 284

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत शान्तिपवके अन्तर्गत गोक्षधर्मपर्वनें दक्षद्रवार काथित शिवसहस्रनामस्तोत्रविषयक दो सौ चौरासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṁ śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi antargate mokṣadharmaparvaṇi dakṣa-dvāra-kathita-śiva-sahasranāma-stotra-viṣayakaḥ dviśata-caturaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے اندر موکش دھرم پَرو میں، دَکش سے متعلق روایت کے ضمن میں بیان کردہ شِو کے سہسرنام-ستوتر سے متعلق دو سو چوراسیواں ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहा-भारत-शान्ति-पर्वकेin the Shanti-parvan of the great Mahabharata

अन्तर्गतincluded/contained

गोक्ष-धर्म-पर्वणाby the Moksha-dharma section

दक्ष-प्रवरैःby the excellent/foremost (editors/reciters) Daksha-pravara(s)

कथितnarrated/said

शिव-सहस्र-नाम-स्तोत्र-विषयकconcerning the hymn of Shiva’s thousand names

द्वि-शत-चतुर्-अशीति-तमःthe 284th

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/finished

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Śiva

Dakṣa

Śiva-sahasranāma-stotra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The chapter’s colophon indicates a teaching unit centered on Śiva’s sahasranāma (thousand names), presenting devotion and sacred praise as a dharmic means for inner purification and orientation toward mokṣa (liberation), consistent with the Mokṣa-dharma section of Śānti Parva.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the formal closing statement of the chapter: it announces that the Mahābhārata’s Śānti Parva, within the Mokṣa-dharma portion, has concluded a chapter whose subject is the Śiva-sahasranāma hymn, connected with an account involving Dakṣa.