Shloka 63
कर्णपुत्रवधः (The Fall of Vṛṣasena) — Karṇa Parva, Adhyāya 62
इति श्रीमहाभारते कर्णपर्वणि धर्मापयाने त्रिषष्टितमो5ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate karṇaparvaṇi dharmāpayāne triṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, titled “Dharmāpayāna,” in the Karṇa Parva of the Śrī Mahābhārata. This closing colophon signals the completion of a section of the war narrative, framing the events within the moral horizon of dharma and its difficult course amid conflict.
(युधिष्टिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the line does not teach through a direct maxim; it frames the preceding discourse as part of the ‘Dharmāpayāna’ theme—highlighting that even in war, events are to be read through the lens of dharma’s difficult movement and moral consequence.
This is the formal closing statement of the chapter, marking the end of the sixty-third adhyāya within the Karṇa Parva and naming the chapter’s thematic heading, ‘Dharmāpayāna.’