Shloka 80
Bhīṣma-nipāta-saṃvāda — Sañjaya’s Report of Bhīṣma’s Fall (भीष्मनिपातसंवादः)
क्रमेण येन यस्मिंश्ष॒ काले यच्च यथाभवत्,कौरवों और पाण्डवोंकी सेनाओंका वह युद्ध जिस समय, जिस क्रमसे और जिस रूपमें हुआ था, वह सब कहो
Dhr̥tarāṣṭra uvāca: krameṇa yena yasmiṁś ca kāle yac ca yathābhavat, kauravāṇāṁ ca pāṇḍavānāṁ ca senayor yad yuddhaṁ tat sarvaṁ vada.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: Tell me everything—when it happened, in what sequence, and in what manner—the battle that took place between the armies of the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. Describe it fully, exactly as it occurred.
धृतराष्ट उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the war as an accountable sequence of actions with consequences: Dhṛtarāṣṭra demands an exact, ordered report—time, order, and manner—highlighting that ethical judgment in the Mahābhārata depends on knowing how events unfolded, not merely who won.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra, unable to see the battlefield, presses for a complete narration of the conflict between the Kaurava and Pāṇḍava armies—requesting the chronology and the precise way the fighting occurred, setting up detailed battle reporting.