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Shloka 220

भद्रवटगमनम् — स्कन्देन महिषदानवनिग्रहः

Bhadravaṭa Procession and Skanda’s Neutralization of Mahiṣa

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आद्धिरसोपाख्याने विंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āddhirāsopākhyāne viṃśatyadhikadviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Assim termina o capítulo ducentésimo vigésimo do Vana Parva do Śrī Mahābhārata, na seção Markandeya-Samāsya, no episódio narrativo conhecido como Āddhirāsa-upākhyāna.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीin the venerable/holy (as honorific)

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā-parvan (sub-section)

आद्धिरसोपाख्यानेin the narrative called Āddhirasa

विंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमःthe two-hundred-and-twentieth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Āddhirāsa-upākhyāna

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: its purpose is to mark the formal close of a chapter and to locate it within the Mahābhārata’s internal structure (parva, section, and embedded episode).

What is happening in the narrative?

The narration attributed to Mārkaṇḍeya reaches a chapter boundary; the text signals completion of the chapter within the Vana Parva and specifies that it belongs to the Āddhirāsa subsidiary tale (upākhyāna) in the Markandeya-related section.