Shloka 359

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttyupākhyāne ekonaṣaṣṭyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے موکش دھرم پَرو میں ‘اُجّھ ورتّی اُپاکھیان’ نامی قصے کا تین سو ساٹھواں باب اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so
• 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

• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: in the narrative (upakhyana) of Ucchavritti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमः: three hundred and fifty-ninth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकोनषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततम
• 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
• Ujjha-vṛtti Upākhyāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the closure of a teaching unit in the Mokṣa-dharma section. Its function is to frame the preceding instruction as part of a structured ethical-spiritual discourse on dharma and liberation.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally concludes an embedded illustrative story (upākhyāna) titled “Ujjha-vṛtti” within the Śānti Parvan’s Mokṣa-dharma portion, and it identifies the chapter number as the 360th.