Shloka 220

भद्रवटगमनम् — स्कन्देन महिषदानवनिग्रहः

Bhadravaṭa Procession and Skanda’s Neutralization of Mahiṣa

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आद्धिरसोपाख्याने विंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āddhirāsopākhyāne viṃśatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus ends the two-hundred-and-twentieth chapter in the Vana Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Markandeya-Samāsya section, in the narrative episode known as the Āddhirāsa-upākhyāna.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्री: in the venerable/holy (as honorific)
• श्री: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• महाभारते: in the Mahābhārata
• महाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• 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 (sub-section)
• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आद्धिरसोपाख्याने: in the narrative called Āddhirasa
• आद्धिरसोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आद्धिरसोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• विंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमः: the two-hundred-and-twentieth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विंशत्यधिक-द्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Āddhirāsa-upākhyāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: its purpose is to mark the formal close of a chapter and to locate it within the Mahābhārata’s internal structure (parva, section, and embedded episode).

What is happening in the narrative?

The narration attributed to Mārkaṇḍeya reaches a chapter boundary; the text signals completion of the chapter within the Vana Parva and specifies that it belongs to the Āddhirāsa subsidiary tale (upākhyāna) in the Markandeya-related section.