Shloka 33
अथैनमब्रवीद् राजन् भगवान् देवसत्तम: । भविता त्वत्समो नान्य: कश्चिद् युधि नर: क्वचित्,“राजन्! तब देवश्रेष्ठ भगवान् नारायणने वह अस्त्र देकर उनसे इस प्रकार कहा --ब्रह्मन! अब युद्धमें तुम्हारी समानता करनेवाला दूसरा कोई मनुष्य कहीं नहीं रह जायगा, परंतु तुम्हें सहसा इसका प्रयोग किसी तरह नहीं करना चाहिये; क्योंकि यह अस्त्र शत्रुका वध किये बिना पीछे नहीं लौटता है
athainam abravīd rājan bhagavān devasattamaḥ | bhavitā tvatsamo nānyaḥ kaścid yudhi naraḥ kvacit ||
Sañjaya said: Then the Blessed Lord, the best among the gods, addressed him: “O King, nowhere at any time will there be any man in battle equal to you.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Extraordinary power in war is ethically charged: being made unrivaled is not a license for unchecked violence but a call to disciplined restraint and dharmic judgment in the use of force.
Sañjaya reports that the divine Lord addresses a warrior (in context, after granting a potent astra), declaring that no one will match him in battle—setting up the tension between divine empowerment and the responsibility to use such power rightly.