Shloka 9
Chapter 47: Krauñca-vyūha Deployment and Conch-Signals
Kaurava–Pāṇḍava Readiness
तथा देवा: सगन्धर्वा: पितरश्ष॒ जनाधिप । सिद्धचारणसंघाश्न समीयुस्ते दिदृक्षया,नरेश्वरर उस समय देवता, गन्धर्व, पितर, सिद्ध, चारण तथा महाभाग महर्षिगण देवराज इन्द्रकों आगे करके उस भीषण मार-काटको देखनेके लिये एक साथ वहाँ आये
tathā devāḥ sagandharvāḥ pitaraś ca janādhipa | siddhacāraṇasaṅghāś ca samīyus te didṛkṣayā ||
Sañjaya said: “So too, O lord of men, the gods along with the Gandharvas, the Pitṛs, and the assembled hosts of Siddhas and Cāraṇas came together there, eager to witness that dreadful slaughter.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores that acts of great dharmic consequence—especially war and mass violence—are not merely human events but are witnessed within a larger moral and cosmic order, implying accountability beyond immediate worldly outcomes.
Sañjaya reports to the king that various celestial and ancestral beings assembled at the battlefield, drawn by the desire to observe the terrifying combat and slaughter unfolding there.