Shloka 98
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें भीष्य-दुर्योधनसंवादविषयक अद्वानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti prakāraḥ śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvake antargataṃ bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi bhīṣma-duryodhana-saṃvāda-viṣayakaḥ dvānavati-tamo 'dhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि भीष्मदुर्योधनसंवादविषयो द्विनवतितमोऽध्यायः समाप्तः॥
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the verse primarily signals closure rather than giving a new doctrinal teaching; ethically, it frames the preceding Bhīṣma–Duryodhana counsel within the larger dharmic tension of war—how advice, duty, and consequence converge as events move toward Bhīṣma’s fall.
Sanjaya marks the completion of a chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva, specifying that it concerned the Bhīṣma–Duryodhana dialogue and belonged to the Bhīṣma-vadha thematic section, thereby transitioning the listener to the next unit of the war narrative.