Shloka 226

Adhyāya 227: Duryodhana’s Deliberation and the Ghoṣa-yātrā Pretext

Dvaita-vana

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आज्धिरसे स्कनन्‍्दोत्पत्तौ षड्विंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi ājdhirase skann-dot-pattau ṣaḍviṃśaty-adhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva—specifically in the section summarizing Mārkaṇḍeya’s discourse—ends the 226th chapter, in the episode concerning the birth/origin of Skanda. This is a colophon marking the close of the chapter, not a spoken narrative verse.

Word by Word

itithus; so

śrīmahābhāratein the venerable Mahābhārata

vanaparvaṇiin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇiin the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā sub-parvan

ājdhi-rasein the (section called) Ājdhi-rasa

skanda-utpattauin (the topic of) the birth/origin of Skanda

ṣaḍviṃśati-adhika-dviśatatamaḥthe two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth

adhyāyaḥchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Skanda

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 is a colophon: it does not teach a moral directly, but signals the formal closure of a chapter and situates the reader within the Mahābhārata’s structure—Vana Parva, Mārkaṇḍeya’s summarized discourse, and the Skanda-origin episode.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative portion has concluded; the text is marking the end of the chapter connected with Skanda’s origin (Skandotpatti) within the Vana Parva’s Mārkaṇḍeya-related section.