Shloka 231

अग्निवंशवर्णनम् (Agni-vaṃśa-varṇana) / The Genealogy and Function of Agni

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि ब्राह्मणव्याधसंवादे एकादशाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi brāhmaṇa-vyādha-saṃvāde ekādaśādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

So endet im ehrwürdigen Mahābhārata, innerhalb des Vana Parva—insbesondere in dem Abschnitt, der die mit Mārkaṇḍeya verbundenen Lehren zusammenfasst—das zweihundertelfte Kapitel des Gesprächs zwischen dem Brāhmaṇa und dem Jäger (vyādha). Diese Zeile ist ein abschließender Kolophon, der das Kapitel beschließt und die ethische Unterweisung als Teil der dharma-lehrenden Erzählung des Waldbuchs rahmt.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā-parvan (sub-parvan)

ब्राह्मणव्याधसंवादेin the dialogue of the brāhmaṇa and the hunter

एकादशाधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-eleventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Brāhmaṇa

Vyādha

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 teaching-verse: it signals the end of a chapter within the brāhmaṇa–vyādha dialogue, framing the preceding instruction as dharma-oriented teaching situated in Vana Parva’s ethical narrative context.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing the chapter: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Vana Parva), the sub-section (connected with Mārkaṇḍeya), and the episode (the brāhmaṇa–vyādha dialogue), and states that the 211th chapter has concluded.