Shloka 121
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि दुर्योधन प्रति भीष्मवाक्ये एकविंशत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi duryodhana prati bhīṣmavākye ekaviṃśatyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends, in the Sri Mahabharata, within the Bhishma Parva—specifically in the section concerning Bhishma’s fall—the discourse of Bhishma addressed to Duryodhana: the one hundred and twenty-first chapter.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it signals the completion of a chapter that contained Bhīṣma’s counsel to Duryodhana. Its ethical function is to frame the preceding instruction as authoritative guidance delivered within the pressures of war and to mark a transition to the next narrative unit.
Sañjaya concludes the chapter by formally stating its placement in the epic (Mahābhārata), its larger book (Bhīṣma Parva), its sub-episode (Bhīṣma-vadha section), and its topic (Bhīṣma’s words to Duryodhana), identifying it as the 121st chapter.