Shloka 10
Chapter 14: Divyāstra-Prayoga and Ṛṣi Intervention (दिव्यास्त्रप्रयोगः ऋषिसमागमश्च)
सशब्दम भवद् व्योम ज्वालामालाकुलं भृशम् | चचाल च मही कृत्स्ना सपर्वतवनद्रुमा
saśabdam abhavad vyoma jvālāmālākulaṃ bhṛśam | cacāla ca mahī kṛtsnā saparvatavanadrumā ||
Vaiśampāyana said: The sky became filled with loud, ominous sounds and was thickly crowded with fierce garlands of flame. The entire earth, together with its mountains, forests, and trees, began to tremble.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses cosmic portents—roaring sounds, flames in the sky, and the trembling earth—to suggest that extreme violence and night-time slaughter disturb not only society but the moral order itself; nature reflects the weight of adharma and its consequences.
As the Sauptika events unfold, terrifying signs appear: the sky resounds and seems filled with blazing flames, and the whole earth shakes with its mountains, forests, and trees—an ominous atmosphere surrounding the episode.