Shloka 85

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमयुद्धदिवसे पज्चाशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamayuddhadivase pañcāśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

اِتی شری مہابھارت کے بھیشم پَرو میں بھیشم وَدھ پَرو میں، جنگ کے ساتویں دن کا پچاسیواں अध्याय۔

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 the slaying of Bhīṣma
• भीष्मवधपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीष्मवधपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्तम: seventh
• सप्तम: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्तम
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• युद्धदिवसे: on the day of battle
• युद्धदिवसे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युद्धदिवस
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• पञ्चाशीतितमः: eighty-fifth
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पञ्चाशीतितम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Bhīṣma Parva
• Bhīṣmavadha-parvan (section heading)
• seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war

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.