Shloka 86

Chapter 89: Bhīma dispatched to protect Ghaṭotkaca amid escalating engagements

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारे षडशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamadivasayuddhāvahāre ṣaḍaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ఇట్లు శ్రీమహాభారతము భీష్మపర్వమున, భీష్మవధపర్వాంతర్గతముగా, ఏడవ దిన యుద్ధవృత్తాంతమున ఎనభై ఆరవ అధ్యాయము సమాప్తమైంది।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahābhārata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भीष्मपर्वणि: in the Bhīṣma-parvan
• भीष्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भीष्मवधपर्वणि: in the section (parvan) on Bhīṣma's slaying
• भीष्मवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मवधपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारे: in the narration/section of the battle of the seventh day
• सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहार
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• षडशीतितमः: eighty-sixth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षडशीतितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Bhīṣma Parva
• Bhīṣma-vadha (episode/section)
• Seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement; its implicit teaching is structural and ethical: the war narrative is presented as a day-by-day unfolding of duty and consequence, and the approach to Bhīṣma’s fall is framed as a pivotal dharmic turning point within the epic.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is marking the end of the eighty-sixth chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva, specifying that the chapter belongs to the account of the seventh day’s fighting and to the episode concerning Bhīṣma’s slaying, thereby locating the reader precisely within the Kurukṣetra war sequence.