Shloka 85

अध्याय ८८ — घटोत्कच-दुर्योधनयुद्धवर्णनम्

Ghaṭotkaca–Duryodhana Engagement

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमयुद्धदिवसे पज्चाशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamayuddhadivase pañcāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

Kaya nga, sa Śrī Mahābhārata, sa Bhīṣma Parva—sa bahaging Bhīṣmavadha Parva—sa ikapitong araw ng dakilang digmaan, nagtatapos ang ikawalongpu’t limang kabanata.

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the Śrī-Mahābhārata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on the slaying of Bhīṣma

सप्तमseventh

युद्धदिवसेon the day of battle

पञ्चाशीतितमःeighty-fifth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣmavadha-parvan (section heading)

seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war

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?

This is a colophon rather than a doctrinal verse: it teaches attentiveness to context—how events are situated within a larger moral history. By marking the war-day and section, it underscores that actions in war unfold in time and consequence, a key ethical lens of the epic.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is closing a chapter and identifying its placement: Bhīṣma Parva, within the Bhīṣma-slaying section, on the seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war, concluding the eighty-fifth chapter.