Shloka 11
भीमसेनस्य बहुमहारथसंयुगः
Bhīmasena’s Engagement with Multiple Mahārathas
रथाग्न्यगारक्षापार्चिरसिशक्तिगदेन्धन:
rathāgnyagārakṣāpārcirasiśaktigadendhanaḥ
Sañjaya describes the battle as a blazing conflagration: chariots are its fire, protective armor its fire-house, flames its radiance, swords and spears its tongues, and maces its fuel—evoking the moral horror and consuming nature of war that devours lives and virtues alike.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses an extended metaphor of fire to show how war becomes a self-feeding force: weapons and defenses turn into the very elements that sustain destruction, warning that violence rapidly escalates and consumes what it touches, even when framed as duty.
Sañjaya, narrating to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, depicts the battlefield’s intensity by likening the combat to a raging fire whose components are chariots, armor, flames, and weapons—conveying the scale and terror of the Kurukṣetra fighting.