Shloka 66

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि विश्वोपाख्याने षट्षष्टितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi viśvopākhyāne ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ดังนี้ ในศรีมหาภารตะ ภีษมปรวะ ในภาคว่าด้วยการล้มภีษมะ (ภีษมวธปรวะ) ตอนวิศโวปาขยานะ บทที่หกสิบหกยุติลงเพียงนี้

Word by Word

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

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the Śrī-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

• विश्वोपाख्याने: in the Viśva-upākhyāna (episode named 'Viśva')
• विश्वोपाख्याने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: विश्वोपाख्यान
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• षट्षष्टितमः: sixty-sixth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षट्षष्टितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Bhīṣma Parva
• Bhīṣma-vadha (slaying/fall of Bhīṣma)
• Viśvopākhyāna

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

This verse is a colophon rather than a doctrinal statement; its function is to frame the narrative ethically and textually by formally closing a chapter within the war-book, reminding the reader that the account of Bhīṣma’s fall is part of an ordered transmission where even violent events are narrated with solemn structure and accountability.

What is happening in the narrative?

The verse signals the end of a chapter: it identifies the larger book (Bhīṣma Parva), the relevant sub-episode (Bhīṣma-vadha), and the embedded narrative label (Viśvopākhyāna), concluding the sixty-sixth chapter with the standard ‘iti … adhyāyaḥ’ closure.