Shloka 17
Droṇa-parva Adhyāya 53: Arjuna’s Jayadratha-vadha Pratijñā and Droṇa’s Protective Vyūha (शकटा-पद्म व्यूहः)
उपसंहरतस्तस्य तमग्निं रोषजं तथा । प्रादुर्बभूव विश्वेभ्यो गोभ्यो नारी महात्मन:,उस क्रोधाग्निका उपसंहार करते समय महात्मा ब्रह्माजीकी सम्पूर्ण इन्द्रियोंसे एक नारी प्रकट हुई, जो काले और लाल रंगकी थी। उसकी जिह्ढला, मुख और नेत्र पीले और लाल रंगके थे। राजेन्द्र! वह तपाये हुए सोनेके कुण्डलोंसे सुशोभित थी और उसके सभी आभूषण तप्त सुवर्णके बने हुए थे
upasaṁharatas tasya tam agniṁ roṣajaṁ tathā | prādurbabhūva viśvebhyo gobhyo nārī mahātmanaḥ ||
Nārada said: As that great-souled one was withdrawing and restraining that wrath-born fire, a woman suddenly manifested from all his senses (as it were from every part of his being). The episode underscores how uncontrolled anger becomes a consuming force, and how its containment gives rise to a directed power—terrible in form—meant to serve a larger cosmic and moral order rather than blind destruction.
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Anger, when allowed to blaze unchecked, becomes destructive like fire; when restrained and gathered back, it can be transformed into a purposeful force aligned with dharma rather than chaos.
Nārada narrates that as the great being withdraws the wrath-born fire, a formidable female figure manifests—an embodied outcome of that restrained energy—signaling a shift from uncontrolled fury to a directed, consequential power.