Shloka 86

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते भीष्मपर्वणि भीष्मवधपर्वणि सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारे षडशीतितमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate bhīṣmaparvaṇi bhīṣmavadhaparvaṇi saptamadivasayuddhāvahāre ṣaḍaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

如是，在《圣摩诃婆罗多》中，于《毗湿摩篇》之内，在叙述毗湿摩之陨落的段落中，于第七日战事的记载处，第八十六章至此终了。此结尾题记将叙事安置于战争的伦理框架之中：命运与义务（达摩）在走向毗湿摩倒下的高潮推进里逐步展开，并标示俱卢之野战争按日推进的进程。

Word by Word

इतिthus; end-quote marker

श्रीमहाभारतेin the revered Mahābhārata

भीष्मपर्वणिin the Bhīṣma-parvan

भीष्मवधपर्वणिin the section (parvan) on Bhīṣma's slaying

सप्तमदिवसयुद्धावहारेin the narration/section of the battle of the seventh day

षडशीतितमःeighty-sixth

अध्यायःchapter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mahābhārata

Bhīṣma Parva

Bhīṣma-vadha (episode/section)

Seventh day of the Kurukṣetra war

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 rather than a doctrinal statement; its implicit teaching is structural and ethical: the war narrative is presented as a day-by-day unfolding of duty and consequence, and the approach to Bhīṣma’s fall is framed as a pivotal dharmic turning point within the epic.

What is happening in the narrative?

The text is marking the end of the eighty-sixth chapter in the Bhīṣma Parva, specifying that the chapter belongs to the account of the seventh day’s fighting and to the episode concerning Bhīṣma’s slaying, thereby locating the reader precisely within the Kurukṣetra war sequence.