Shloka 48
तत्रान्तरिक्षे बाणानां प्रगाढानां विशाम्पते | संघर्षण महार्चिष्मानू पावक: समजायत,प्रजानाथ! वहाँ अन्तरिक्षमें ठसाठस भरे हुए बाणोंकी रगड़से भारी लपटोंसे युक्त आग प्रकट हो गयी
tatrāntarikṣe bāṇānāṃ pragāḍhānāṃ viśāṃpate | saṃgharṣaṇamahārcīṣmān pāvakaḥ samajāyata prajānātha ||
Sañjaya said: O lord of the people, O ruler of men, there in the sky—so densely packed were the arrows—that from their mutual friction a fire arose, blazing with great tongues of flame. The scene reveals how, when warfare is driven to excess, even the elements seem to ignite, as if nature itself bears witness to the ruinous momentum of violence.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the destructive escalation of war: when hostility becomes relentless, it generates consequences that feel elemental and uncontrollable. Ethically, it hints that violence, once unleashed beyond restraint, spreads suffering and disorder far beyond the immediate combatants.
Sañjaya describes the battlefield intensity: arrows fill the air so densely that their collisions and friction seem to produce a blazing fire in the sky. It is vivid war-poetry that also functions like an omen-like image of the battle’s ferocity.