Shloka 85
अध्याय ८८ — घटोत्कच-दुर्योधनयुद्धवर्णनम्
Ghaṭotkaca–Duryodhana Engagement
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमयुद्धदिवसे पज्चाशीतितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamayuddhadivase pañcāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
ಇತಿ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತೇ ಭೀಷ್ಮಪರ್ವಣಿ ಭೀಷ್ಮವಧಪರ್ವಣಿ, ಯುದ್ಧದ ಏಳನೇ ದಿನದ ಎಂಭತ್ತೈದನೇ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯಃ।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches attentiveness to context—how events are situated within a larger moral history. By marking the war-day and section, it underscores that actions in war unfold in time and consequence, a key ethical lens of the epic.
The text is closing a chapter and identifying its placement: Bhīṣma Parva, within the Bhīṣma-slaying section, on the seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war, concluding the eighty-fifth chapter.