Shloka 88

Bhagadattā’s Deployment Against Ghaṭotkaca; Elephant-Corps Escalation

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सुनाभादिधृतराष्ट्रपुत्रवधे अष्टाशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi sunābhādidhṛtarāṣṭraputravadhe aṣṭāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Thus, in the revered Mahābhārata, within the Bhīṣma Parva—specifically in the section concerning the slaying of Bhīṣma—ends the eighty-eighth chapter, describing the killing of Sunābha and other sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. This colophon marks the close of a narrative unit in which the war’s moral gravity is underscored through the fall of royal heirs and the inexorable movement of fate on the battlefield.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quotation marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्री: auspiciousness; venerable (honorific)
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• महाभारते: in the Mahābhārata
• महाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भीष्मपर्वणि: in the Bhīṣma-parvan
• भीष्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भीष्मवधपर्वणि: in the section (parvan) on the slaying of Bhīṣma
• भीष्मवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मवधपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सुनाभादिधृतराष्ट्रपुत्रवधे: in (the account of) the killing of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons beginning with Sunābha
• सुनाभादिधृतराष्ट्रपुत्रवधे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुनाभादिधृतराष्ट्रपुत्रवध
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• अष्टाशीतितमः: eighty-eighth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टाशीतितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahābhārata
• Bhīṣma
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Sunābha