Shloka 36
Adhyāya 35 — Bhīmasena’s Counter-Encirclement and the Karṇa Engagement Escalation
इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि शल्यसंवादे षट्त्रिंशो5ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi śalya-saṃvāde ṣaṭtriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends the thirty-sixth chapter in the Karṇa Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata, within the dialogue with Śalya, as narrated by Sañjaya. The colophon marks a formal closure, reminding the listener that the account is transmitted through an eyewitness narrator and framed as a moral-historical record of the war and its counsel.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse teaches framing rather than a new doctrine: it signals that the preceding counsel and war narrative are to be received as an authoritative, structured transmission (śruti-like in form), emphasizing accountability of speech, the gravity of counsel in war, and the ethical weight of recorded history.
Sañjaya closes the chapter by formally stating its placement: within the Mahābhārata, in the Karṇa Parva, specifically in the section describing the dialogue involving Śalya. It functions as an editorial marker ending the chapter.