Shloka 70

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहा भारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि संकुलयुद्धे सप्ततितमो5ध्याय: ।। ७० || इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत भीष्मपर्वके अन्तर्गत भीष्मवधपर्वमें संकुल-युद्धविषयक सत्तरवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saṅkulayuddhe saptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ || 70 ||

Translation

Sañjaya nói: “Như vậy, trong thánh sử Mahābhārata, thuộc Bhīṣma Parva, trong phần nói về sự ngã xuống (cái chết) của Bhīṣma, chương thứ bảy mươi—kể về trận chiến hỗn độn, rối bời và quấn chặt—đến đây kết thúc.”

Word by Word

इतिthus; so (end-quote marker)

श्रीauspiciousness; honorific 'Śrī'

महाभारतेin the Mahābhārata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-slaying sub-parvan

संकुलयुद्धेin the confused/chaotic battle

सप्ततितमःseventieth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣma-vadha Parva

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 verse is a colophon marking the close of a chapter; its implicit lesson is attentiveness to textual structure and context—recognizing how the epic frames episodes of war as morally weighty narrative units rather than mere action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya signals to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the chapter describing a ‘saṅkula’ (confused, intermingled) phase of the Kurukṣetra battle has concluded, within the Bhīṣma Parva and the sub-section focused on Bhīṣma’s fall.