Shloka 44
उन्मत्तगज्जप्रतिमं शब्देनापूरयज्जगत् । इस प्रकार अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंसे परिपूर्ण यह महाभयानक युद्ध बढ़ी हुई गंगाके समान जगत्को कोलाहलसे परिपूर्ण कर रहा था ।। ४३ $ || नैव स्वे न परे राजन् विज्ञायन्ते शरातुरा:
unmattagajja-pratimaṁ śabdenāpūrayaj jagat | naiva sve na pare rājan vijñāyante śarāturāḥ ||
Sañjaya said: “Like a maddened elephant, it filled the world with its roar. O King, in that dreadful battle—crowded with missiles and weapons and surging like a swollen Gaṅgā—the din overwhelmed everything; those struck by arrows could no longer be distinguished as ‘our own’ or ‘the enemy.’”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how extreme violence and confusion in war can erase moral and social distinctions—friend and foe become indistinguishable—underscoring the ethical cost of uncontrolled conflict and the suffering it produces.
Sañjaya reports to the king that the battlefield has become terrifyingly loud and chaotic, likened to a raging elephant and a flooded Gaṅgā; amid the arrow-stricken fighters, neither side can clearly recognize their own men versus the enemy.