Shloka 7
भीष्मपर्व — अध्याय 54: फल्गुन-प्रतिरोधः, सौबली-व्यूह-विध्वंसः, दुर्योधन-भीष्म-संवादः
शक्यो जेतुं यम: क्रुद्धो वज़पाणि श्च संयुगे । वरुण: पाशभूृद् वापि कुबेरो वा गदाधर:
sañjaya uvāca | śakyo jetuṃ yamaḥ kruddho vajrapāṇiś ca saṃyuge | varuṇaḥ pāśabhṛd vāpi kuberaḥ vā gadādharaḥ ||
Dijo Sañjaya: «Aun si Yama estuviera airado; aun si Indra, portador del rayo, entrara en la lid; aun si Varuṇa viniera con su lazo, o Kubera con su maza—hasta esos poderes divinos podrían ser afrontados y vencidos en combate.»
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses divine exemplars of punishment, sovereignty, and power (Yama, Indra, Varuṇa, Kubera) to express the extremity of martial confidence and the seriousness of the conflict. Ethically, it signals that the war has reached a pitch where even cosmic guardians of order are invoked as benchmarks—highlighting how dharma, fear, and resolve are tested at their limits.
Sañjaya, narrating events to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, intensifies the description of battlefield prowess by declaring that even mighty gods—Yama in wrath, Indra with the vajra, Varuṇa with the noose, or Kubera with the mace—could be confronted and defeated in combat. It functions as a rhetorical escalation within the war narrative.