Shloka 100
Adhyāya 104 — Śikhaṇḍin-puraskāraḥ (Śikhaṇḍin as Vanguard) and Bhīṣma’s Counter-Advance
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्यवधपर्वमें अलग्बुष और अभिमनन््युका संग्रामविषयक सौवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Bhīṣmaparvaṇi antargate Bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi Alambuṣa-Abhimanyus-saṅgrāmaviṣayakaḥ śatamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
Sañjaya said: Thus ends the hundredth chapter of the Bhīṣma Parva of the sacred Mahābhārata, within the section concerning the slaying of Bhīṣma, describing the battle between Alambuṣa and Abhimanyu.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the ethical gravity of war by formally closing an episode of combat, reminding the reader that each battle is a discrete moral and narrative unit within the larger dharma-struggle of the Kurukṣetra war.
Sanjaya signals the completion of the hundredth chapter describing the battle involving Alambuṣa and Abhimanyu, and situates it within the Bhīṣma Parva—specifically within the Bhīṣma-vadha section—serving as an editorial/narrative closure marker.