Shloka 11
भारत! वहाँ मैंने बहुत-से अद्भुत, भयंकर, निछ्ठर एवं अमानुषिक कर्मोका प्रदर्शन किया
bhārata! tatra mayā bahūny adbhutāni bhayaṅkarāṇi niṣṭhurāṇy amānuṣikāṇi karmāṇi pradarśitāni
O Bhārata, there I displayed many deeds—wondrous yet terrifying—harsh and beyond ordinary human measure.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Extraordinary power and extraordinary actions can be both wondrous and frightening; the verse points to the moral gravity of deeds that exceed normal human limits, implying that such acts demand heightened ethical scrutiny.
Vāyudeva addresses a Bhārata-line figure and recounts that, in a particular context, he demonstrated many astonishing and terrifying, harsh, superhuman deeds—serving as testimony to his formidable capability and the intensity of the situation being described.