Shloka 101
Adhyāya 104 — Śikhaṇḍin-puraskāraḥ (Śikhaṇḍin as Vanguard) and Bhīṣma’s Counter-Advance
इति श्रीमहा भारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि अलम्बुषाभिमन्युयुद्धे एकाधिकशततमो<ध्याय:
iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi alambuṣābhimanyuyuddhe ekādhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ
اِتی شری مہابھارت کے بھیشم پَرو میں، بھیشم وَدھ پَرو میں، اَلَمبُوش–اَبھِمنیو یُدھ کے بیان پر مشتمل ایک سو ایکواں اَدھیائے۔
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a chapter-colophon, the verse primarily teaches how the epic frames events within a moral-historical structure: battles are not isolated feats but parts of a larger dharmic narrative, where duty, courage, and consequence are tracked and remembered with formal closure.
This line signals the end of the chapter: it identifies the larger book (Bhīṣma Parva), the relevant episode (Bhīṣma’s slaying section), and the immediate focus (the fight between Alambuṣā and Abhimanyu), concluding the one-hundred-and-first chapter.