Shloka 20
असप्प्राप्तास्तु ता धारास्तेजसा जातवेदस: । ख एव समशुष्यन्त न काश्चित् पावकं गता:,परंतु अग्निके तेजसे वे धाराएँ वहाँ पहुँचनेसे पहले आकाशमें ही सूख जाती थीं। अग्नितक कोई धारा पहुँची ही नहीं
asapprāptāstu tā dhārāstejasā jātavedasaḥ | kha eva samaśuṣyanta na kāścit pāvakaṃ gatāḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana said: Those streams of water, unable to reach the Fire, were dried up in mid-sky by the blazing energy of Jātavedas. Not a single current succeeded in arriving at the flame. The scene underscores the overwhelming, unassailable power of the divine fire—where ordinary remedies fail before superior tejas.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the supremacy of tejas (fiery spiritual/elemental power): when a force is sustained by divine energy, ordinary countermeasures (like water against fire) may fail before even making contact, suggesting the limits of merely external remedies.
Streams of water are being directed toward a blazing fire, but Agni’s intense radiance evaporates them in the sky itself; none of the streams reaches the fire.