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Shloka 214

स्कन्दोपाख्यानम् — उत्पातशान्तिः, स्वाहारूपविचारः, कौमारमङ्गलक्रियाः

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि ब्राह्मणव्याधसंवादे चतुर्दशाधिकद्विशततमो<5 ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपवके अन्तर्गत मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वमें ब्राह्मण-व्याध- संवादविषयक दो सौ चौदहवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi brāhmaṇa-vyādha-saṃvāde caturdaśādhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ | itiprakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate vanaparvake antargata mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparva meṃ brāhmaṇa-vyādha-saṃvāda-viṣayaka do sau caudahvā̃ adhyāya pūrā huā |

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ตอนวนปัรวะ ภาคย่อยมารกัณฑेयสมาสยะ บทสนทนาระหว่างพราหมณ์กับพราน (วยาธะ) บทที่สองร้อยสิบสี่ก็สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quote marker)

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana-parvan (Forest Book)

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsyā-parvan (section)

ब्राह्मणव्याधसंवादेin the dialogue of the brāhmaṇa and the hunter

चतुर्दशाधिकद्विशततमःthe 214th (two-hundred-and-fourteenth)

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya (as implied by the section title)

Brāhmaṇa

Vyādha

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 verse is a colophon marking the end of the Brāhmaṇa–Vyādha dialogue section; its broader lesson is that dharma can be taught through lived ethical conduct, even by someone socially unexpected (the vyādha), emphasizing duty, right action, and moral discernment.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text formally closes the chapter and the dialogue unit: it states that within the Vana Parva, in the Markandeya-related sub-section, the two-hundred-and-fourteenth chapter—the Brāhmaṇa–Vyādha conversation—has been completed.