Shloka 30
Adhyāya 22: Śālva’s Weapon-Shower, Dāruka’s Wounding, and the Māyā-Report of Vasudeva’s Father
यक्षाणां राक्षसानां च दानवानां च संयुगे । राज्ञां च प्रतिलोमानां भस्मान्तकरणं महत्,इतना ही नहीं, वह यक्षों, राक्षसों, दानवों तथा विपक्षी राजाओंको भी भस्म कर डालनेवाला और महान था
yakṣāṇāṁ rākṣasānāṁ ca dānavānāṁ ca saṁyuge | rājñāṁ ca pratilomānāṁ bhasmāntakaraṇaṁ mahat |
Vāyu said: “In battle, it was a mighty power—capable of reducing to ashes not only Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, and Dānavas, but even hostile kings who stood in opposition.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the overwhelming force that can arise in righteous struggle: when opposition aligns with destructive or unrighteous intent, a divinely-backed power is portrayed as capable of total neutralization—symbolically ‘reducing to ashes’ forces that threaten order.
Vāyu is describing the extraordinary destructive capacity present in a battle context—so great that it could annihilate various non-human adversarial classes (Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Dānavas) as well as opposing kings.