Shloka 64
समन्तपञ्चक-आख्यानम् तथा अक्षौहिणी-प्रमाणनिर्णयः
Samantapañcaka Narrative and the Measure of an Akṣauhiṇī
ज्ञेयं विवादपर्वात्र कर्णस्यापि महात्मन: । निर्याणं च तत: पर्व कुरुपाण्डवसेनयो:,इसी प्रसंगमें महात्मा कर्णका विवादपर्व है। तदनन्तर कौरव एवं पाण्डव-सेनाका निर्याणपर्व है
jñeyaṃ vivādaparvātra karṇasyāpi mahātmanaḥ | niryāṇaṃ ca tataḥ parva kurupāṇḍavasenayoḥ ||
या प्रसंगात महात्मा कर्णासंबंधी ‘विवादपर्व’ जाणावे; त्यानंतर कौरव व पांडव-सेनांच्या ‘निर्याणपर्वा’चे वर्णन येते।
राम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how disputes (vivāda) are not isolated events: when not resolved through dharma and restraint, they progress into organized hostility, culminating in collective mobilization (niryāṇa) and war.
The text is marking the epic’s internal structure: it points to a section focused on Karṇa’s dispute-related episode(s) (Vivāda-parvan), and then indicates the subsequent section describing the departure/march of the Kuru and Pāṇḍava armies (Niryāṇa-parvan).