Shloka 82
Adhyāya 86: Irāvān’s Lineage, Cavalry Clash, and the Māyā-Duel Ending in Irāvān’s Fall
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें द्वैरथयुद्धविषयक बयासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Bhīṣmaparvake antargata Bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi dvairathayuddhaviṣayakaṃ bayāsīvāṃ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat.
Sanjaya said: Thus, in the revered Mahabharata, within the Bhishma Parva—specifically in the section concerning the slaying of Bhishma—the eighty-second chapter, dealing with the duel between two chariots, comes to its conclusion. This closing colophon signals a completed narrative unit in the war-chronicle, marking the formal end of a focused episode of combat and its moral weight within the larger dharmic struggle.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it teaches how the Mahābhārata frames events through structured chapter endings, emphasizing that episodes of violence are treated as accountable narrative units within a larger dharmic history.
The text announces the completion of the eighty-second chapter on a chariot-duel episode within Bhīṣma Parva, under the thematic heading of Bhīṣma’s downfall; it functions as an editorial closure marking the end of that chapter’s account.