Shloka 136
अभ्यधावन्त संक्रुद्धा राक्षसा: शस्त्रपाणय: । घिरी हुई मेघोंकी घटाके समान हाथियोंकी सेनाको देखकर क्रोधमें भरे हुए राक्षस हाथमें अस्त्र-शस्त्र लिये उसकी ओर दौड़े
abhya-dhāvanta saṅkruddhā rākṣasāḥ śastra-pāṇayaḥ |
ক্ৰোধে দগ্ধ ৰাক্ষসসকলে হাতে অস্ত্ৰ-শস্ত্ৰ লৈ, মেঘে আৱৃত পৰ্বতমালাৰ দৰে গোট খাই থকা হাতীৰ সেনা দেখি তাৰ দিশে ধাৱমান হ’ল।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how anger (krodha) propels beings into reckless aggression; in the Mahābhārata’s ethical frame, such rage-driven action clouds discernment and accelerates destruction, contrasting with the ideal of self-restraint even amid conflict.
Sañjaya reports that armed Rākṣasa warriors, provoked and furious, charge toward an opposing force described (in the received context) as an elephant-host, likened to cloud-covered mountains—emphasizing the scale and intensity of the battlefield encounter.