Shloka 80
महाव्यूहप्रवर्तनम् / Deployment of the Great Battle Arrays
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि भीष्मदुर्योधनसंवादे अशीतितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi bhīṣmaduryodhanasaṃvāde aśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
এইভাবে শ্রীমহাভারতের ভীষ্মপর্বে, ভীষ্মবধপর্বের অন্তর্গত, ভীষ্ম ও দুর্যোধনের সংলাপে, আশিতিতম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it signals that the preceding dialogue is to be read as ethically significant—counsel given amid war, and the tragic results when power and pride resist wise restraint.
This is the chapter-ending marker: Sañjaya indicates that the eightieth chapter concludes, situated in Bhīṣma Parva, specifically in the episode on Bhīṣma’s fall, and centered on the conversation between Bhīṣma and Duryodhana.