Shloka 61
Adhyaya 60: Self-Assertion, Daiva, and the Rhetoric of Inevitability (उद्योग पर्व)
इति श्रीमहाभारते उद्योगपर्वणि यानसंधिपर्वणि दुर्योधनवाक्ये एकषष्टितमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत उद्योगपर्वके अन्तर्गत यानसंधिपर्वमें दुर्योधनवाक्यविषयक इकसठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate udyogaparvaṇi yānasaṃdhiparvaṇi duryodhanavākye ekaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
ಇಂತೆ ಶ್ರೀಮಹಾಭಾರತದ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಪರ್ವದ ಯಾನ-ಸಂಧಿಪರ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ದುರ್ಯೋಧನನ ವಾಕ್ಯವಿಷಯಕ ಏಕಷಷ್ಟಿತಮ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯವು ಸಮಾಪ್ತಿಯಾಯಿತು.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse does not teach through direct instruction; it signals closure. Ethically, it frames the preceding material as Duryodhana-centered discourse within a peace-mission context, highlighting the Mahābhārata’s recurring tension between negotiation (sandhi) and the hardening of will that leads to war.
The narrator marks the completion of the sixty-first chapter in the Udyoga Parva’s Yāna–Sandhi section, identifying it as focused on Duryodhana’s words. It functions as an editorial/narrative boundary before the text proceeds to the next unit.