Shloka 57

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि तृतीये युद्धदिवसे संकुलयुद्धे सप्तपज्चाशत्तमोडध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi tṛtīye yuddhadivase saṅkulayuddhe saptapañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

આ રીતે શ્રીમહાભારતના ભીષ્મપર્વમાં, ભીષ્મવધપર્વના અંતર્ગત, યુદ્ધના ત્રીજા દિવસે થયેલા સંકુલ યુદ્ધનો સત્તાવનમો અધ્યાય સમાપ્ત થાય છે.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the venerable Mahābhārata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the slaying of Bhīṣma

तृतीयेon the third

युद्धदिवसेon the day of battle

संकुलयुद्धेin the confused/close battle

सप्तपञ्चाशत्तमःfifty-seventh

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣma-vadha-parvan (section on Bhīṣma’s fall)

third day of the Kurukṣetra war

saṅkula-yuddha (confused melee battle)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it frames the episode ethically by emphasizing the war’s escalating chaos (saṅkula-yuddha) and situating events within the arc leading to Bhīṣma’s fall—an emblem of how even the most venerable guardians of dharma can be overwhelmed when conflict becomes morally and tactically entangled.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending marker: it states that the account belongs to the Bhīṣma Parva, within the portion dealing with Bhīṣma’s downfall, and that the described events occur on the third day of fighting during a confused melee; it signals the close of the fifty-seventh chapter.