Shloka 250

Adhyāya 249 — Mṛtyu-prādurbhāvaḥ (The Manifestation of Death) / Restraint of Tejas and Ordered Saṃhāra

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि शुकानुप्रश्ने पजञ्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi śukānupraśne pañcāśadadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Như vậy, trong Śrī Mahābhārata, thuộc Śānti Parvan—đặc biệt là phần Mokṣa-dharma—trong mạch “Śuka tiếp tục thưa hỏi”, chương thứ hai trăm năm mươi kết thúc. Đây là lời kết (colophon) ghi dấu sự khép lại của một đơn vị giáo huấn về giải thoát và chánh hạnh.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote 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

• शुकानुप्रश्ने: in the follow-up question(s) of Śuka
• शुकानुप्रश्ने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शुकानुप्रश्न
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशदधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-fiftieth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चाशदधिकद्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parvan
• Mokṣa-dharma Parvan
• Śuka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse; it signals the completion of a chapter situated in the Mokṣa-dharma teachings, whose broader aim is to orient the listener toward liberation through right understanding, disciplined living, and inquiry.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parvan), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the immediate dialogic frame (Śuka’s further inquiry), and then marks the chapter count as the 250th.