Shloka 81
भीष्मभीमसमागमः — Bhīṣma–Bhīma Strategic Engagement and Counsel to the King
इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमयुद्धदिवसे एकाशीतितमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamayuddhadivase ekāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ
อิติ ศรีมหาภารตะ ในภีษมปรวะ ในภีษมวธปรวะ ณ วันรบที่เจ็ด บทที่แปดสิบเอ็ด
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
This line is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches how the epic frames events within dharma and time—by formally locating the chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva and the ‘Bhīṣma-vadha’ section, it underscores that even the fall of a righteous elder occurs within the larger moral and karmic unfolding of war.
The text is closing a chapter: it states that, in the Mahābhārata’s Bhīṣma Parva, within the portion dealing with Bhīṣma’s fall, on the seventh day of battle, the eighty-first chapter concludes.