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Shloka 365

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शतसाहरूयां संहितायां वैयासिक्यां शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने पञज्चषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttyupākhyāne pañcaṣaṣṭyadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

اِتی—شری مہابھارت کی شتساہسری ویا سکی سنہتا میں، شانتِی پَرو کے موکش دھرم پَرو کے تحت اُچّھ ورتّی کے اُپاکھیان کا تین سو پینسٹھواں ادھیائے۔

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीglory; auspiciousness; honorific

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

शतसाहस्र्यांin the (collection) of one hundred thousand (verses)

संहितायांin the compilation; in the collection

वैयासिक्यांin the Vyāsa-tradition; composed by Vyāsa

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣa-dharma section

उच्छवृत्त्युपाख्यानेin the episode (upākhyāna) of Ucchavṛtti

पञ्चषष्ट्यधिकत्रिशततमःthe three-hundred-sixty-fifth (chapter)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vyāsa (implied by vaiyāsikī)

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Ujjhavaṛtti (episode title)

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 marking the close of a chapter and locating it within the Mahābhārata’s structure (Śānti Parva → Mokṣa-dharma section → Ujjhavaṛtti episode). Rather than giving a new doctrine, it frames the preceding material as part of the liberation-oriented teachings of Mokṣa-dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator/editorial voice signals the end of the chapter, identifying the larger work (Mahābhārata), the recension (Vaiyāsika), the parva (Śānti), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the embedded tale (Ujjhavaṛtti). It functions as a formal closure and cataloging marker.