Shloka 81
Dhṛtarāṣṭra–Sañjaya-saṃvādaḥ; madhyāhna-saṅgrāma-pravṛttiḥ
Dhritarashtra–Sanjaya dialogue and the midday battle escalation
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें सातवें दिनका युद्धविषयक इकक््यासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraṃ Śrīmahābhārate Bhīṣmaparvake antargataṃ Bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptame dine yuddhaviṣayakam ekāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ.
ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമഹാഭാരതത്തിലെ ഭീഷ്മപർവ്വത്തിൽ, ഭീഷ്മവധപർവ്വത്തിൽ, ഏഴാം ദിവസത്തെ യുദ്ധവൃത്താന്തം വിവരിക്കുന്ന എൺപത്തൊന്നാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This is a colophon marking the completion of a chapter. Its implicit teaching is that the Mahābhārata frames warfare within an ordered moral and narrative accounting—events are not random violence but part of a dharmic inquiry, here oriented toward Bhīṣma’s destined fall and the ethical tensions of the battlefield.
The text signals that the eighty-first chapter—describing the seventh day’s battle events within the Bhīṣma-vadha section of the Bhīṣma Parva—has ended. It functions as an editorial/narrative closure rather than a spoken verse of action.