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Mahabharata — Shanti Parva, Shloka 316

नारद–शुक संवादः (Nārada–Śuka Dialogue): Tyāga, Saṃyama, and Vyakta–Avyakta Viveka

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवादे षोडशाधिकत्रिशततमो<्ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi yājñavalkya-janaka-saṃvāde ṣoḍaśādhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

如是，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》中，于《寂静篇》（Śānti Parva）之《解脱法门》（Mokṣa-dharma）部分，阎若婆迦与阇那迦之对话——第三百一十六章（即三百加十六）至此终结。

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

मोक्षधर्मपर्वणिin the Mokṣadharma section

याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवादेin the dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka

षोडशाधिकत्रिशततमःthe three-hundred-and-sixteenth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Mokṣadharma Parva

Yājñavalkya

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 marking the close of a chapter in the Mokṣadharma portion of Śānti Parva. It frames the teaching context as a dialogue between the sage Yājñavalkya and King Janaka—an archetypal setting for instruction on liberation (mokṣa), right conduct (dharma), and the integration of wisdom with worldly responsibility.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding the chapter: it identifies the larger work (Mahābhārata), the book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Mokṣadharma), and the specific conversational frame (Yājñavalkya–Janaka dialogue), then states the chapter number as the 316th.