Shloka 225

Karṇa’s Counsel on Śrī

Fortune) and the Proposed Display before the Exiled Pāṇḍavas (कर्णवचनम् / श्रीप्रदर्शन-प्रस्तावः

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि आंगिरसे कुमारोत्पत्तौ पज्चविंशत्यधिकद्धिशततमो<5ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi āṅgirase kumārotpattau pañcaviṃśatyadhika-dviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Sa gayon, sa Śrī Mahābhārata, sa loob ng Vana Parva, sa bahaging tinatawag na Mārkaṇḍeya-samāsya Parva, sa salaysay tungkol sa pagsilang ng anak na mula sa angkan ng Āṅgirasa, nagwawakas ang ika-225 na kabanata (adhyāya).

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the holy Mahabharata

वनपर्वणिin the Vana Parva

मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणिin the Markandeya-samasyā sub-parvan

आंगिरसेin (the section concerning) the descendant of Aṅgiras / Āṅgirasa

कुमारोत्पत्तौin the (topic of) the birth/origin of the prince/son (Kumāra)

पञ्चविंशत्यधिकद्विशततमःthe two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Vana Parva

Mārkaṇḍeya

Aṅgiras (Āṅgirasa lineage)

Kumāra (the son/child whose birth is the episode theme)

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 line is a colophon rather than a didactic verse: it teaches how the Mahābhārata self-organizes—by parva, sub-parva, and episode-title—so that the narrative and its ethical discussions can be accurately located and transmitted.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is marking the close of an adhyāya within Vana Parva, specifically within the Mārkaṇḍeya-related sub-section, and identifies the chapter’s topic as an episode concerning the birth of a son in the Āṅgirasa lineage.