Shloka 17

भीष्मरक्षण-उद्योगः, शिखण्डि-विवर्जनं, सर्वतोभद्र-व्यूहः

Protection of Bhīṣma, Exemption of Śikhaṇḍin, and the Sarvatobhadra Array

Devanagari script

भूयश्व विननादोग्र॑ क्रोधसंरक्तलोचन: । त्रासयामास सैन्यानि युगान्ते जलदो यथा,इसके बाद क्रोधसे आँखें लाल करके वह पुनः भयंकर गर्जना करने लगा। जैसे प्रलयकालमें संवर्तक मेघकी गर्जना होती है, वैसी ही गर्जना करके उसने सारी कौरवसेनाको दहला दिया

Transliteration

bhūyaś ca vinanādograḥ krodha-saṁrakta-locanaḥ | trāsayām āsa sainyāni yugānte jalado yathā ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Once again, with eyes reddened by anger, he let out a fierce roar. Like the thunder of a world-ending cloud at the close of an age, his cry struck terror into the armies, shaking the Kaurava host with dread.

Word by Word

भूयःagain, once more

चand

विननादroared, bellowed

उग्रःfierce, terrible

क्रोध-संरक्त-लोचनःwhose eyes were reddened with anger

त्रासयामासterrified, caused to tremble

सैन्यानिarmies, troops

युगान्तेat the end of an age (at dissolution)

जलदःcloud

यथाas, like

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Kaurava army (Kaurava-senā)

yugānta (end of the age, cosmic dissolution motif)

jalada (cloud)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how uncontrolled anger manifests outwardly—through terrifying speech and demeanor—and how such wrath spreads fear and destabilizes many. Ethically, it underscores anger’s contagious power in war: it can overwhelm discernment and drive collective panic.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a warrior (implied from context) roaring again with rage, his eyes bloodshot. The roar is compared to the thunder of a cataclysmic cloud at the end of time, and it frightens the assembled troops, especially the Kaurava forces.