Shloka 196

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि मार्कण्डेयसमास्यापर्वणि सेदुकवृषदर्भचरिते षण्णवत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvaṇi sedukavṛṣadarbhacarite ṣaṇṇavatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Như vậy, trong bộ Śrī Mahābhārata, thuộc Vana Parva—đặc biệt trong phần tóm lược lời thuyết giảng của Mārkaṇḍeya—kết thúc chương thứ một trăm chín mươi sáu, mang tên “Tích chuyện Seduka, Vṛṣa và Darbha”. (Đây là lời kết chương.)

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.