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Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि धुन्धुमारोपाख्याने एकाधिकद्विशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi dhundhumāropākhyāne ekādhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ವನಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ, ಮಾರ್ಕಂಡೇಯ-ಸಮಾಸ್ಯಾಪರ್ವದ ಅಂತರಗತ ಧುಂಧುಮಾರೋಪಾಖ್ಯಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ದ್ವಿಶತ ದ್ವಿತೀಯ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತವಾಯಿತು.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीauspiciousness; venerable (honorific)

महा-भारतेin the Mahābhārata

वन-पर्वणिin the Vana Parva

मार्कण्डेय-समास्याय-परवणिin the Markandeya-samāsya section (sub-parvan)

धुन्धुमार-उपाख्यानेin the episode (upākhyāna) of Dhundhumāra

एक-अधिक-द्वि-शत-तमःtwo-hundred-and-first

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Dhundhumāra

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line functions as a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: its purpose is to anchor the reader in the Mahābhārata’s structure, indicating that the preceding Dhundhumāra episode—told within the Vana Parva’s Mārkaṇḍeya-linked section—has concluded, reinforcing the epic’s method of teaching dharma through framed exemplary narratives.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narration pauses to mark closure: it states that, within the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva, in the Mārkaṇḍeya-associated section, the Dhundhumāra upākhyāna has reached the end of chapter 202.