Shloka 358

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने अष्टपञ्चाशदधिकत्रिशततमो< ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi ujjhavṛttyupākhyāne aṣṭapañcāśad-adhika-triśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

如是，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》之《寂静篇》中——尤指“解脱法”（Mokṣa-dharma）之部——第三百五十八章告终；其章所载，乃关于 ujjha-vṛtti（苦行而俭约之生计方式）之事。

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the venerable Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokshadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: in the episode (upakhyana) of Ucchavritti
• उज्छवृत्त्युपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: उज्छवृत्ति-उपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• अष्टपञ्चाशत्: fifty-eight
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टपञ्चाशत्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अधिक: added; plus
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अधिक
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• त्रिशततमः: three-hundredth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रिशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Ujjha-vṛtti (mode of livelihood)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals the close of an instructive episode on ujjha-vṛtti—an austere, non-dependent way of living—highlighting Mokṣa-dharma values such as restraint, minimalism, and ethical self-sufficiency as supports for inner freedom.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is an end-of-chapter colophon: it formally concludes the chapter within Śānti Parva’s Mokṣa-dharma section, identifying the completed unit as the ujjha-vṛtti upākhyāna (a didactic sub-tale about an ascetic mode of livelihood).