Shloka 102
मृदु-तीक्ष्ण-नीति तथा दुष्टलक्षण-विज्ञानम्
Measured Policy and the Recognition of Malicious Disposition
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत शान्तिपर्वके अन्तर्गत राजधमनुशासनपर्वमें सेनानीतिका वर्णनविषयक एक सौ दोवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvake antargata rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi senānītikā-varṇana-viṣayaka ekaśata-dvitīyo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ
Thus ends the one-hundred-and-second chapter of the Mahabharata’s Shanti Parva, within the section on the instruction of royal duties, dealing with the description of the principles of military leadership. This closing colophon marks the completion of the chapter’s teaching on how a commander should be guided by disciplined policy and righteous conduct.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the line chiefly signals completion: it frames the chapter’s subject as senānīti—principles of military command—within the broader instruction on rājadharma, implying that even warfare-related leadership is to be governed by disciplined policy and dharmic restraint.
The text is closing the chapter: it announces that the 102nd chapter on the description of senānīti, situated in the Shanti Parva’s Rājadharma instruction section, has concluded (traditionally under Bhīṣma’s discourse to Yudhiṣṭhira).