Shloka 82
Adhyāya 86: Irāvān’s Lineage, Cavalry Clash, and the Māyā-Duel Ending in Irāvān’s Fall
इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें द्वैरथयुद्धविषयक बयासीवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Bhīṣmaparvake antargata Bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi dvairathayuddhaviṣayakaṃ bayāsīvāṃ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ abhavat.
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि द्वैरथयुद्धविषयको द्व्यशीतितमोऽध्यायः समाप्तः।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement: it teaches how the Mahābhārata frames events through structured chapter endings, emphasizing that episodes of violence are treated as accountable narrative units within a larger dharmic history.
The text announces the completion of the eighty-second chapter on a chariot-duel episode within Bhīṣma Parva, under the thematic heading of Bhīṣma’s downfall; it functions as an editorial closure marking the end of that chapter’s account.