Shloka 225

Karṇa’s Counsel on Śrī

Fortune) and the Proposed Display before the Exiled Pāṇḍavas (कर्णवचनम् / श्रीप्रदर्शन-प्रस्तावः

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आंगिरसे कुमारोत्पत्तौ पज्चविंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āṅgirase kumārotpattau pañcaviṃśatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the Vana Parva, in the section known as the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsya Parva, in the episode concerning the birth of the son of the Āṅgirasa lineage, ends the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth chapter (i.e., the 225th adhyāya).

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the holy Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana Parva
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: in the Markandeya-samasyā sub-parvan
• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्कण्डेय-समास्य-पर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• आंगिरसे: in (the section concerning) the descendant of Aṅgiras / Āṅgirasa
• आंगिरसे: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आङ्गिरस
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• कुमारोत्पत्तौ: in the (topic of) the birth/origin of the prince/son (Kumāra)
• कुमारोत्पत्तौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कुमार-उत्पत्ति
• Form: Feminine, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमः: the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चविंशति-अधिक-द्विशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Aṅgiras (Āṅgirasa lineage)
• Kumāra (the son/child whose birth is the episode theme)