Shloka 225
Adhyāya 227: Duryodhana’s Deliberation and the Ghoṣa-yātrā Pretext
Dvaita-vana
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वमें आड़िरयोपाख्यानके प्रसंगरें कुमारोत्पत्तिविषयक दो सौ पचीसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Vanaparvaṇi antargate Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyāparvaṇi Āḍirayo-pākhyāna-prasaṅge Kumārotpatti-viṣayakaḥ dviśata-pañcaviṃśatamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva, in the section known as the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsya Parva, in the context of the Āḍiraya episode, the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth chapter—dealing with the birth/origin of Kumāra—comes to an end.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line functions as a colophon: it teaches how the epic is organized into parvas, sub-sections, and themed chapters, emphasizing completion and thematic closure (here, the account concerning Kumāra’s origin).
No new event is narrated; the text announces that the chapter on Kumāra’s origin, occurring within the Mārkaṇḍeya-related section of the Vana Parva, has concluded.