Shloka 11
वर्तमाने तथा युद्धे घोरे देवासुरोपमे
vartamāne tathā yuddhe ghore devāsuropame
As that dreadful battle raged on—like the primeval clash between gods and demons—Sañjaya cast the scene as a conflict of cosmic scale, stressing the terrifying intensity and moral weight of war when it is driven to such extremes.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how war, when it becomes ghora (dreadful), takes on a near-cosmic magnitude, reminding the listener that such violence is not merely tactical but ethically weighty, shaking the very order (dharma) that society depends upon.
Sañjaya describes the battle as it is actively unfolding, characterizing it as terrifying and comparable to the legendary devas-versus-asuras conflict, thereby heightening the sense of scale and intensity in the Drona Parva war episodes.