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Shloka 196

कौशिकस्य क्रोधविनिवृत्तिः — Kauśika’s Anger Checked by Householder Dharma

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि सेदुकवृषदर्भचरिते षण्णवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi sedukavṛṣadarbhacarite ṣaṇṇavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Demikianlah, dalam Śrī Mahābhārata pada Vana Parva—khususnya dalam bagian ringkasan wejangan Mārkaṇḍeya—berakhirlah bab ke-196, yang dikenal sebagai kisah Seduka, Vṛṣa, dan Darbha.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quotation marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

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

सेदुकवृषदर्भचरितेin the episode/story of Seduka, Vṛṣa, and Darbha

षण्णवतिअधिकशततमःthe one-hundred-and-ninety-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Seduka

Vṛṣa

Darbha

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: it teaches indirectly by emphasizing textual order and faithful transmission—marking where a chapter ends and identifying its thematic episode (Seduka–Vṛṣa–Darbha) within Mārkaṇḍeya’s summarized discourse in the Forest Book.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative action pauses: the text formally closes the chapter, situating it within the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva and within the Mārkaṇḍeya-related subsection, and naming the episode that has just concluded.