Shloka 231

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि ब्राह्मणव्याधसंवादे एकादशाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

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

Translation

Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva—specifically the section summarizing the teachings associated with Mārkaṇḍeya—ends the two-hundred-and-eleventh chapter of the dialogue between the brāhmaṇa and the hunter (vyādha). This is a concluding colophon marking the close of the chapter and framing the ethical instruction as part of the forest-book’s dharma-teaching narrative.

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

Cross References

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.