Shloka 70
इति श्रीमहा भारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे सप्ततितमो5ध्याय: ।। ७० || इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें संकुल-युद्धविषयक सत्तरवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saṅkulayuddhe saptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || 70 ||
Sañjaya said: “Thus, in the sacred Mahābhārata, within the Bhīṣma Parva, in the section concerning the slaying (fall) of Bhīṣma, the seventieth chapter—dealing with the confused and densely entangled battle—comes to an end.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon marking the close of a chapter; its implicit lesson is attentiveness to textual structure and context—recognizing how the epic frames episodes of war as morally weighty narrative units rather than mere action.
Sañjaya signals to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the chapter describing a ‘saṅkula’ (confused, intermingled) phase of the Kurukṣetra battle has concluded, within the Bhīṣma Parva and the sub-section focused on Bhīṣma’s fall.