Shloka 361

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने एकषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttyupākhyāne ekaṣaṣṭyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

یوں شری مہابھارت کے شانتِی پَرو کے موکش دھرم پَرو میں ‘اُجّھ وِرتّی اُپاکھیان’ نامی حکایت کا ایکسٹھ زائد تین سو اکسٹھواں (361واں) ادھیائے اختتام کو پہنچا۔

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Śānti-parvan
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokṣadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: in the narrative of Ucchavṛtti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्ति-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• एकषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमः: the three-hundred-sixty-first
• एकषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एकषष्टि-अधिक-त्रिशत-तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Ujjha-vṛtti Upākhyāna
• Brāhmaṇa (speaker)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the closure of a Mokṣa-dharma teaching unit by formally naming the larger work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the embedded tale (Ujjha-vṛtti Upākhyāna). Its function is to frame and authenticate the transmission of ethical and liberation-oriented instruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative pauses to mark an ending: the Ujjha-vṛtti episode within Mokṣa-dharma concludes here, and the chapter count is stated. It is a formal editorial closure indicating that the Brāhmaṇa speaker’s segment has reached its endpoint.