Shloka 66
समन्तपञ्चक-आख्यानम् तथा अक्षौहिणी-प्रमाणनिर्णयः
Samantapañcaka Narrative and the Measure of an Akṣauhiṇī
अम्बोपाख्यानमन्रैव पर्व ज्ञेगमत: परम् | भीष्माभिषेचन पर्व ततश्वाद्भुतमुच्यते,इसके बाद ही अम्बोपाख्यानपर्व है। तत्पश्चात् अदभुत भीष्माभिषेचनपर्व कहा गया है
ambopākhyānam anraiva parva jñegamataḥ param | bhīṣmābhiṣecana-parva tataś cādbhutam ucyate |
यानंतर ‘अम्बोपाख्यानपर्व’ जाणावे; त्यानंतर अद्भुत म्हणून कथित ‘भीष्माभिषेचनपर्व’ येते।
राम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse functions primarily as a structural guide: it highlights how the epic organizes moral history through named episodes. By pointing to Ambā’s story and Bhīṣma’s consecration as distinct parvas, it signals that vows, duty, and their consequences are central ethical threads that the narrative will unfold through specific exempla.
The speaker is enumerating the sequence of sections within the text: first the Ambā-upākhyāna (the account of Ambā), and thereafter the Bhīṣma-abhiṣecana parva, described as ‘wondrous’. It is a catalog-like transition indicating what comes next in the Adi Parva’s arrangement.