Shloka 222

Draupadī’s Instruction on Marital Conduct and Household Discipline (चित्तग्रहण-उपदेश)

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आज्ञिरसोपाख्यानेडग्निसमुद्धवे द्वाविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमो5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi ājñirasopākhyāne ’gnisamuddhave dvāviṁśatyadhikadvīśatatamo ’dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva—under the section summarizing the discourse of Mārkaṇḍeya— in the Ājñirasa episode concerning Agni’s arising, this concludes the two-hundred-and-twenty-second chapter (i.e., Chapter 222).

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana Parva (Forest Book)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Markandeya-samasyā section (sub-parvan)

आज्ञिरसोपाख्यानेin the Āṅgirasa episode (upākhyāna)

अग्निसमुद्धवेin (the section called) Agni-samuddhava

द्वाविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमःtwo-hundred-and-twenty-second

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Agni

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 closure and preserves the text’s organization—work, parva, sub-section, episode-title, and chapter number—helping readers locate and transmit the narrative accurately.

What is happening in the narrative?

The chapter ends. The colophon states that the narration associated with Mārkaṇḍeya’s section, within the Ājñirasa episode about Agni’s emergence/arising, has reached the end of Chapter 222 in the Vana Parva.