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Shloka 218

स्कन्दग्रहवर्णनम् (Skanda-graha-varṇanam) — Description and Pacification of the Skanda-afflictions

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि अड्धिरसोपाख्याने अष्टादशाधिकद्विशततमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत मार्कण्डेययमास्यापर्वमें अंगिरसोपाख्यानविषयक दो सौ अठारहवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi aṅgirasopākhyāne aṣṭādaśādhikadvīśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ |

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവ്വത്തിനകത്തെ മാർക്കണ്ഡേയ-സമാസ്യാപർവ്വത്തിൽ അങ്ഗിരസോപാഖ്യാനവിഷയമായ ഇരുനൂറ്റി പതിനെട്ടാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus; so

श्रीमहाभारतेin the (holy) Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Markandeya-samasya-parvan (section)

अङ्गिरसोपाख्यानेin the narrative (upakhyana) of Angiras

अष्टादशाधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-eighteenth (chapter)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Aṅgiras

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?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse; its function is to authenticate and organize the transmission of the text by clearly stating the work (Mahābhārata), the parva (Vana), the internal section (Mārkaṇḍeya-related division), and the sub-episode (Aṅgiras), thereby emphasizing careful preservation of narrative context.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator’s discourse reaches a formal stopping point: the Aṅgiras-related upākhyāna within the Mārkaṇḍeya section of the Vana Parva is concluded, and the chapter is declared complete (chapter 218 as counted in this internal scheme).