Shloka 86
Chapter 89: Bhīma dispatched to protect Ghaṭotkaca amid escalating engagements
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारे षडशीतितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamadivasayuddhāvahāre ṣaḍaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Ainsi, dans le Śrī Mahābhārata, au sein du Bhīṣma Parva, dans la section concernant la chute de Bhīṣma, dans le récit du combat du septième jour, s’achève le quatre-vingt-sixième chapitre. Ce colophon de clôture inscrit l’épisode dans le cadre éthique de la guerre : le destin et le devoir (dharma) s’y déploient dans l’élan culminant qui mène à la chute de Bhīṣma, tout en marquant la progression, jour après jour, du conflit de Kurukṣetra.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement; its implicit teaching is structural and ethical: the war narrative is presented as a day-by-day unfolding of duty and consequence, and the approach to Bhīṣma’s fall is framed as a pivotal dharmic turning point within the epic.
The text is marking the end of the eighty-sixth chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva, specifying that the chapter belongs to the account of the seventh day’s fighting and to the episode concerning Bhīṣma’s slaying, thereby locating the reader precisely within the Kurukṣetra war sequence.