Shloka 11
भीमसेनस्य बहुमहारथसंयुगः
Bhīmasena’s Engagement with Multiple Mahārathas
रथाग्न्यगारक्षापार्चिरसिशक्तिगदेन्धन:
rathāgnyagārakṣāpārcirasiśaktigadendhanaḥ
એ યુદ્ધ જાણે પ્રજ્વલિત દાવાનલ—રથો તેની અગ્નિ, કવચો તેનું અગ્નિગૃહ; જ્વાલાઓ તેની તેજસ્વિતા, તલવારો અને શક્તિઓ તેની જિહ્વાઓ, અને ગદાઓ તેનું ઇંધણ.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses an extended metaphor of fire to show how war becomes a self-feeding force: weapons and defenses turn into the very elements that sustain destruction, warning that violence rapidly escalates and consumes what it touches, even when framed as duty.
Sañjaya, narrating to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, depicts the battlefield’s intensity by likening the combat to a raging fire whose components are chariots, armor, flames, and weapons—conveying the scale and terror of the Kurukṣetra fighting.