Shloka 194

धौन्धुमारोपाख्यानम्

Dhaundhumāra-Upākhyāna: The Slaying of Dhundhu and the Epithet ‘Dhundhumāra’

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि शिबिचरिते चतुर्नवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi śibicarite caturnavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the one-hundred-and-ninety-fourth chapter in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva, in the subsection known as the Markandeya Samasya Parva, in the narrative of King Śibi. This closing colophon signals the completion of the chapter and frames the episode as an ethical exemplar within the forest-book’s teachings on dharma.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; so (end-quotation marker)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: in the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā-parvan (section named thus)
• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शिबिचरिते: in the story of Śibi
• शिबिचरिते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिबिचरित
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• चतुर्नवत्यधिकशततमः: the one-hundred-and-ninety-fourth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर्नवत्यधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Mārkaṇḍeya (as section-title reference)
• Śibi