Shloka 23
संधाय च शरं दीप्तमभिमन्त्रय स पाण्डव: पर्जन्यास्त्रेण संयोज्य सर्वलोकस्य पश्यत:
sandhāya ca śaraṃ dīptam abhimantrya sa pāṇḍavaḥ parjanyāstreṇa saṃyojya sarvalokasya paśyataḥ
Sañjaya said: The Pāṇḍava, having fitted a blazing arrow and empowered it with mantra, yoked it to the Parjanya-weapon; and this he did in the sight of all, before the watching world—an act that displays both martial mastery and the grave responsibility of invoking cosmic forces amid war.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights that extraordinary power in war—especially mantra-invoked astras—must be exercised with awareness and accountability, since such acts affect not only opponents but the wider world that witnesses and bears the consequences.
Sañjaya reports that a Pāṇḍava warrior prepares a blazing arrow, sanctifies it with mantra, and then deploys it as the Parjanya-astra (a rain/thunder-related divine weapon), doing so openly before all onlookers.