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Shloka 294

यक्षोपाख्यान-प्रवेशः

Entry into the Yakṣa-Lake Episode

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वणि सावितऋयुपाख्याने चतुर्नवत्यधिकद्विशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi pativratāmāhātmyaparvaṇi sāvitrīyupākhyāne caturnavatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

「ここに『シュリー・マハーバーラタ』ヴァナ・パルヴァ、『貞節なる妻の偉大さ（パティヴラター・マーハートミャ）』、サーヴィトリーの副物語における第294章は終わる。」

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

पतिव्रतामाहात्म्यपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the greatness of devoted wives

सावित्र्युपाख्यानेin the tale of Savitri

चतुर्नवत्यधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-ninety-fourth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Pativratā-māhātmya (section)

Sāvitrī (upākhyāna)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The colophon signals that the surrounding narrative belongs to the ‘Pativratā-māhātmya’ and the ‘Sāvitrī-upākhyāna’, highlighting dharma through the ideal of steadfast virtue and devoted conduct, presented as an ethical exemplar within the epic.

What is happening in the narrative?

This line is a formal chapter-ending colophon: it identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the book (Vana Parva), the internal section (glory of devoted wives), the embedded tale (Sāvitrī), and states the chapter number, marking the close of the chapter in Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration.