Shloka 228
चित्रसेनगन्धर्वैः कौरवसंनिपातः
Citrasena and the Kaurava engagement
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वमें आंगिरसोपाख्यानके प्रयंगनें कुमारोत्पत्तिविषयक दो सौ अट्ठाईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargata-mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āṅgirasopākhyānasya prayojane kumārotpatti-viṣayakaḥ dviśatāṣṭāviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
وهكذا، في «شري مهابهاراتا»، ضمن «ڤانا پرفا»—وخاصة في قسم خلاصة ماركاندييا—يُختَتم الفصل الثامن والعشرون بعد المئتين، وهو من ضمن حكاية آṅغيراسا ويتناول موضوع ولادة الابن.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the line primarily teaches how the Mahābhārata frames stories as purposeful exempla: episodes (upākhyānas) are embedded within larger books to convey moral and social values—here, the significance of progeny/continuity and the completion of a didactic unit under Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration.
This is not a narrative event but an editorial/narrative marker: Mārkaṇḍeya’s spoken section closes the 228th chapter of the Āṅgirasa episode, identified as dealing with the theme of a son’s birth, and announces the chapter’s completion within the Vana Parva.