Shloka 30
Karṇa–Sūrya Saṃvāda: Satya, Dāna, and the Amoghā Śakti (कर्ण–सूर्यसंवादः)
बिभिदुस्ते मणिस्तम्भान् कर्णान््टशिखराणि च । भग्नोन्मथितश्ड्राणि यन्त्राणि च विचिक्षिपु:,वानर सैनिक वहाँके मणिनिर्मित खम्भों और अत्यन्त ऊँचे-ऊँचे महलोंके कंगूरोंको तोड़ने-फोड़ने लगे। गोलाबारी करनेवाले जो तोप आदि यन्त्र लगे थे, उनके शिखरोंको चूर- चूर करके उन्होंने दूर फेंक दिया
bibhiduste maṇistambhān karṇāṭaśikharāṇi ca | bhagnonmathitaśastrāṇi yantrāṇi ca vicikṣipuḥ ||
Mārkaṇḍeya dijo: «Destrozaron los pilares enjoyados y las altas cimas, almenas y parapetos de las mansiones. Las máquinas de asedio y los artefactos lanzamisiles—con sus salientes hechos añicos y sus mecanismos arruinados—fueron arrancados y arrojados lejos.»
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the overwhelming force of a divinely aided or extraordinary host in war: even fortified splendor and engineered defenses collapse when power is misused or when adharma invites ruin. It implicitly warns that pride in wealth, architecture, and weaponry is fragile without righteous grounding.
In Mārkaṇḍeya’s narration, the attackers (contextually a vānarasena/monkey host) storm a fortified place, smashing jeweled pillars and high architectural projections, and disabling siege or missile-throwing machines by breaking and uprooting them, then flinging the wreckage away.