Shloka 58
भीमसेनस्य बहुमहारथसंयुगः
Bhīmasena’s Engagement with Multiple Mahārathas
दारयन्निव पद्धयां स जगतीं जगदी श्वर: । क्रोधताम्रेक्षण: कृष्णो जिघांसुरमितद्युति:
sañjaya uvāca | dārayann iva padhyāṃ sa jagatīṃ jagadīśvaraḥ | krodhatāmrekṣaṇaḥ kṛṣṇo jighāṃsur amitadyutiḥ ||
Sañjaya dit : Kṛṣṇa, Seigneur de l’univers, d’une splendeur incommensurable, les yeux rougis par la colère, s’avança avec l’intention de tuer Bhīṣma—avec une telle force que la terre semblait se fendre sous le martèlement de ses pas.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma is not mere passivity: when injustice threatens the righteous, even restraint can yield to decisive action. Kṛṣṇa’s wrath here is portrayed as protective and dharma-oriented—an ethical intensity aimed at preventing adharma from prevailing.
Sañjaya describes Kṛṣṇa surging forward in anger, intent on killing Bhīṣma; his steps are so powerful that the earth seems to裂. This belongs to the episode where Kṛṣṇa, seeing Arjuna hard-pressed by Bhīṣma, moves to intervene directly.