Shloka 357

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ucchavṛttyupākhyāne saptapañcāśadadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Như vậy, trong Śrī Mahābhārata, thuộc Śānti Parva—đặc biệt là phần Mokṣa-dharma—đoạn truyện (upākhyāna) mang tên “Ucchavṛtti” (người sống bằng cách nhặt lượm phần còn sót) đến đây là kết thúc. Tại đây khép lại chương thứ ba trăm năm mươi bảy (357).

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered 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 (upākhyāna) of Ucchavṛtti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्ति-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमः: three-hundred-and-fifty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तपञ्चाशत्-अधिक-त्रिशत-तम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Ucchavṛtti (as an epithet/title of the subject of the upākhyāna)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon, signaling the close of a Mokṣa-dharma episode. By naming ‘Ucchavṛtti,’ it foregrounds an ethical ideal praised in Mokṣa-dharma: austere, non-possessive living (subsisting by gleaning) as a support for inner discipline and liberation-oriented dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is not advancing the story but formally concluding it: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), the specific embedded tale (Ucchavṛtti-upākhyāna), and marks the end of the chapter count given here.