Shloka 85
इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि वृषसेनवधे पठचाशीतितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi vṛṣasenavadhe pañcāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends the eighty-fifth chapter of the Karṇa Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, in the section concerning the slaying of Vṛṣasena. The narrator Sañjaya marks the close of this episode, underscoring the relentless moral and emotional cost of war, where even the fall of a single warrior becomes a decisive turn in the larger conflict.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the ethical weight of the preceding narrative by formally closing the episode of Vṛṣasena’s death, reminding the reader that the war’s progress is measured in irreversible human losses.
Sañjaya signals the end of the eighty-fifth chapter in the Karṇa Parva, specifically the portion dealing with the slaying of Vṛṣasena, thereby concluding that narrative unit and transitioning to what follows in the parva.