Shloka 186
इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत द्रोणपर्वके अन्तर्गत द्रोणवधपर्वमें संकुलयुद्धविषयक एक सौ छियासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraṃ śrīmahābhārate droṇaparvake antargataṃ droṇavadhaparvaṇi saṅkulayuddhaviṣayaka ekaśataṣaṭyāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ
かくして『シュリー・マハーバーラタ』の「ドローナ・パルヴァ」—とりわけ「ドローナ討伐の章（ドローナヴధパルヴァ）」において—錯綜し密に絡み合う戦闘を述べた第百八十六章は終わる。
भीमसेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon, not a doctrinal verse: it teaches by structure—reminding the reader that the chaos of war (saṅkula-yuddha) is part of a larger moral narrative culminating in Droṇa’s death, and that episodes of violence are framed and judged within the epic’s ethical horizon.
The text signals the end of the 186th chapter within Droṇa Parva, in the Droṇa-vadha subsection, whose topic is the confused, tightly packed fighting. It is a formal closing statement rather than a speech-content line.