Shloka 196

कौशिकस्य क्रोधविनिवृत्तिः — Kauśika’s Anger Checked by Householder Dharma

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि सेदुकवृषदर्भचरिते षण्णवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi sedukavṛṣadarbhacarite ṣaṇṇavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారత వనపర్వమున, మార్కండేయ-సమాస్యాపర్వాంతర్గతంగా సేదుక, వృష, దర్భచరిత్రవర్ణనలో నూట తొంభై ఆరవ అధ్యాయం సమాప్తమగును.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quotation marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• वनपर्वणि: in the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)
• वनपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वनपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: in the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā-parvan (sub-section)
• मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मार्कण्डेय-समास्यापर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सेदुकवृषदर्भचरिते: in the episode/story of Seduka, Vṛṣa, and Darbha
• सेदुकवृषदर्भचरिते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सेदुक-वृष-दर्भ-चरित
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• षण्णवतिअधिकशततमः: the one-hundred-and-ninety-sixth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षण्णवति-अधिक-शततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• अध्यायः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Vana Parva
• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Seduka
• Vṛṣa
• Darbha

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: it teaches indirectly by emphasizing textual order and faithful transmission—marking where a chapter ends and identifying its thematic episode (Seduka–Vṛṣa–Darbha) within Mārkaṇḍeya’s summarized discourse in the Forest Book.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrative action pauses: the text formally closes the chapter, situating it within the Mahābhārata’s Vana Parva and within the Mārkaṇḍeya-related subsection, and naming the episode that has just concluded.