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पञ्चमहाभूतगुण-इन्द्रियनिग्रह-उपदेशः | Teaching on the Qualities of the Five Elements and Sense-Control

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि धुन्धुमारोपाख्याने एकाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi dhundhumāropākhyāne ekādhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im verehrten Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Vana Parva—insbesondere im mit Mārkaṇḍeya verbundenen Abschnitt—im Bericht über Dhundhumāra das zweihundertzweitе Kapitel. Dies ist ein Kolophon, das den Abschluss einer Erzähleinheit kennzeichnet und den Hörer in den lehrhaften Rahmen des „Waldbuchs“ einordnet, in dem beispielhafte Geschichten dazu dienen, Dharma durch erinnerte Geschichte zu erhellen.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महा-भारतेin the Mahābhārata

वन-पर्वणिin the Vana Parva

मार्कण्डेय-समास्याय-परवणिin the Markandeya-samāsya section (sub-parvan)

धुन्धुमार-उपाख्यानेin the episode (upākhyāna) of Dhundhumāra

एक-अधिक-द्वि-शत-तमःtwo-hundred-and-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Dhundhumāra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: its purpose is to anchor the reader in the Mahābhārata’s structure, indicating that the preceding Dhundhumāra episode—told within the Vana Parva’s Mārkaṇḍeya-linked section—has concluded, reinforcing the epic’s method of teaching dharma through framed exemplary narratives.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narration pauses to mark closure: it states that, within the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva, in the Mārkaṇḍeya-associated section, the Dhundhumāra upākhyāna has reached the end of chapter 202.