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Shloka 304

Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि वसिष्ठकरालजनकसंवादे चतुरधिकत्रिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi vasiṣṭhakarālajanakasaṃvāde caturadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

如是，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》之《寂静篇》（Śānti Parva）中，尤以《解脱法门》（Mokṣa-dharma）一段，婆悉吒、迦罗罗与阇那迦之对话至此告终：第三百零四章。此为结尾题记（colophon），标示一段以解脱为旨归之法义教诲，随其谈论而圆满闭合。

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Shanti Parva

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokshadharma section

वसिष्ठकरालजनकसंवादेin the dialogue of Vasiṣṭha, Karāla, and Janaka

चतुरधिकत्रिशततमःthe three-hundred-and-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣa-dharma Parva

Vasiṣṭha

Karāla

Janaka

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals that the chapter concludes within the Mokṣa-dharma portion of Śānti Parva, framing the preceding material as instruction on liberation-oriented dharma delivered through the Vasiṣṭha–Karāla–Janaka dialogue.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter: it formally identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣa-dharma), and the conversational setting (dialogue of Vasiṣṭha, Karāla, and Janaka), and then states that this is the 304th chapter.