Shloka 3
भीष्मसेनासंनिवेशः — Bhīṣma’s Mobilization, Omens, and the Kaurava Array
द्विधाभूत इवादित्य उदये प्रत्यदृश्यत । ज्वलन्त्या शिखया भूयो भानुमानुदितो रवि:
dvidhābhūta ivāditya udaye pratyadṛśyata | jvalantyā śikhayā bhūyo bhānumān udito raviḥ ||
Sañjaya said: At sunrise the Sun appeared as though split into two, and as it rose it blazed ever more fiercely, crowned with a flaming crest—an ominous brilliance befitting the day of battle.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how nature’s extraordinary signs are read as portents in epic ethics: the battlefield is not merely human conflict but a dharma-crisis mirrored by cosmic imagery, intensifying the sense of inevitable, fateful confrontation.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra an ominous sunrise at the outset of the Kurukṣetra fighting: the Sun seems doubled and rises with heightened, fierce radiance, signaling an extraordinary and perilous day.