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Shloka 86

दुर्ग-निवेश-राजधर्मः | Fortified Capital and the King’s Residential Polity

Rājadharma

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते शान्तिपर्वणि राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणि दुर्गपरी क्षायां षडशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi rājadharmānuśāsanaparvaṇi durgapārīkṣāyāṃ ṣaḍaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

इति श्रीमहाभारताच्या शान्तिपर्वातील राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वात दुर्गपरीक्षा-विषयक शहाऐंशीवा अध्याय समाप्त झाला।

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीglory; auspiciousness; honorific

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

शान्तिपर्वणिin the Śānti-parvan

राजधर्मानुशासनपर्वणिin the Rājadharma-anuśāsana-parvan (section on instruction in kingly duties)

दुर्गfort; stronghold

परीक्षायाम्in the examination; in the discussion/testing

षडशीतितमःeighty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Śānti Parva

Rājadharmānuśāsana Parva

Durgapārīkṣā (examination of forts)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This is a colophon marking the end of a chapter within Bhīṣma’s rājadharma instruction, indicating that the completed unit concerns evaluating forts—an aspect of responsible kingship focused on protection, preparedness, and prudent administration.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is concluding a chapter in the Śānti Parva. After Bhīṣma’s discourse on governance topics, the compiler’s closing line identifies the work (Mahābhārata), the larger book (Śānti Parva), the subsection (Rājadharmānuśāsana), the chapter’s theme (examination of forts), and the chapter number (86).