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 ||
संजय बोले—सम्पूर्ण जगत् के स्वामी, अमित तेजस्वी भगवान श्रीकृष्ण क्रोध से लाल नेत्र किये, भीष्म को मार डालने की इच्छा लेकर आगे बढ़े; उनके चरणों की धमक से मानो पृथ्वी विदीर्ण-सी होने लगी।
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.