Shloka 228

चित्रसेनगन्धर्वैः कौरवसंनिपातः

Citrasena and the Kaurava engagement

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वमें आंगिरसोपाख्यानके प्रयंगनें कुमारोत्पत्तिविषयक दो सौ अट्ठाईसवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargata-mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āṅgirasopākhyānasya prayojane kumārotpatti-viṣayakaḥ dviśatāṣṭāviṃśatitamodhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ വനപർവ്വാന്തർഗതമായ മാർക്കണ്ഡേയ-സമാസ്യാപർവ്വത്തിൽ ആംഗിരസോപാഖ്യാനപ്രസംഗത്തിൽ കുമാരോത്പത്തി വിഷയകമായ ഇരുനൂറ്റി ഇരുപത്തിയെട്ടാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारेणin this manner

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana Parva

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (therein)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Markandeya-samasya section (sub-parva)

आङ्गिरसोपाख्यानस्यof the Angirasa episode

प्रसङ्गेin the context/occasion

कुमारोत्पत्तिविषयकःconcerning the birth of Kumara

द्विशताष्टाविंशतितमःtwo-hundred-and-twenty-eighth

अध्यायःchapter

समाप्तःcompleted/ended

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsya-parvan

Āṅgirasa (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?

As a colophon, the line primarily teaches how the Mahābhārata frames stories as purposeful exempla: episodes (upākhyānas) are embedded within larger books to convey moral and social values—here, the significance of progeny/continuity and the completion of a didactic unit under Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is not a narrative event but an editorial/narrative marker: Mārkaṇḍeya’s spoken section closes the 228th chapter of the Āṅgirasa episode, identified as dealing with the theme of a son’s birth, and announces the chapter’s completion within the Vana Parva.