Shloka 753
अभ्मवृष्टिभिरत्युग्र: सूतपुत्रमवाकिरत् । उस दिव्यास्त्रद्वारा दूर फेंका गया वह पर्वतराज क्षणभरमें अदृश्य हो गया और पुनः आकाशमें इन्द्रधनुषसहित काला मेघ बनकर वह अत्यन्त भयंकर राक्षस सूतपुत्र कर्णपर पत्थरोंकी वर्षा करने लगा
sañjaya uvāca | abhmavṛṣṭibhir atyugraḥ sūtaputram avākirat |
Sañjaya said: With a most dreadful shower of stones, he pelted the charioteer’s son, Karṇa. Though the mountain-king had been hurled far away by a divine missile and vanished for a moment, it reappeared in the sky as a dark cloud accompanied by a rainbow, and that exceedingly terrifying rākṣasa again began to rain stones upon Karṇa. The scene underscores how, in the frenzy of war, even wondrous, nature-like manifestations are turned into instruments of harm, testing a warrior’s steadiness amid overwhelming, seemingly cosmic violence.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights the ethical tension of war: extraordinary power and even nature-like marvels can be weaponized, and a warrior’s dharma is tested not only by human opponents but by overwhelming, seemingly cosmic assaults—demanding steadiness, restraint, and resolve amid escalating violence.
Sañjaya narrates that Karṇa is being attacked by a fierce opponent who pelts him with a terrifying rain of stones. A mountain, earlier flung away by a divine missile and briefly disappearing, reappears in the sky like a dark cloud with a rainbow and again becomes the source of the stone-shower directed at Karṇa.