Shloka 85
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वरमें सातवें दिनके युद्धरे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला पचासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi antargate bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptame dine yuddhasambandhaṃ rakṣamāṇaḥ pañcāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
Sanjaya said: Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Bhīṣma Parva—specifically in the section concerning the fall of Bhīṣma—the eighty-fifth chapter, relating to the events of the seventh day of the war, is concluded.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon-style closure rather than a doctrinal verse: it emphasizes orderly transmission of the epic, situating the listener within the moral and strategic arc of the war. By marking the seventh day’s war-related account as complete, it underscores that actions in war unfold in stages, each carrying ethical weight and consequences that the narrative will continue to examine.
Sañjaya formally concludes the eighty-fifth chapter within the Bhīṣma Parva, noting that it pertains to the fighting on the seventh day and belongs to the sub-section dealing with Bhīṣma’s fall. It signals a transition point: one unit of the war narrative ends, and the next segment is about to begin.