Shloka 96

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्ााभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें आठवें दिनके युद्धरें सेनाके शिविरमें लौटनेसे सम्बन्ध रखनेवाला छानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

Iti prakāraḥ Śrīmahābhārate Bhīṣmaparvake antargataṃ Bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi aṣṭame dine yuddhe senāyāḥ śibiraṃ prati lautanena sambandhaṃ rakhanevālā chānabevāṃ adhyāyaḥ pūrṇaḥ huā.

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภีษมปรรพ ภายใต้ตอนว่าด้วยการล้มลงของภีษมะ บทที่เก้าสิบหก อันพรรณนาการที่กองทัพกลับสู่ค่ายในวันที่แปดแห่งสงคราม ก็สิ้นสุดลง

Word by Word

इतिthus

प्रकारम्manner/way

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

अन्तर्गतेincluded/contained (in)

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-vadha-parvan

अष्टमेon the eighth

दिनेday

युद्धेin the battle

सेनायाःof the army

शिबिरेin the camp

लौटनेto return/returning

सम्बन्धम्connection/relation

रखनेवालाhaving/keeping

षट्नवतितमःninety-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

पूर्णःcompleted

अभवत्was/became

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīmahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣmavadha Parva

Bhīṣma

senā (the army)

śibira (camp)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

As a colophon-style closing, the passage does not teach a doctrine directly; it frames the ethical gravity of the war by marking its disciplined cadence—battle followed by withdrawal—suggesting that actions in war unfold within an ordered sequence whose cumulative results lead toward inevitable outcomes, here the approaching fall of Bhīṣma.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is the chapter-ending notice: it states that the chapter connected with the army’s return to the camp after fighting on the eighth day has concluded, within the Bhīṣma Parva and specifically within the section concerning Bhīṣma’s fall.