Shloka 19
भीमसेन उवाच सूताद्यैनं पश्य भीमप्रयुक्ति: संछिन्दद्धि: पार्थिवानां सुवेगै: । छन्न॑ बाणैराहवं घोररूपं नष्टादित्यं मृत्युलोकेन तुल्यम्,भीमसेन बोले--सूत! आज इस युद्धस्थलकी ओर दृष्टिपात करो। भीमसेनके छोड़े हुए अत्यन्त वेगशाली बाणोंने राजाओंका विनाश करते हुए सारे रणक्षेत्रको आच्छादित कर दिया है, जिससे सूर्य भी अदृश्य हो गये हैं और यह भूमि यमलोकके समान भयंकर प्रतीत होती है
bhīmasena uvāca sūtādya enaṃ paśya bhīmaprayuktiḥ saṃchindaddhiḥ pārthivānāṃ suvegaiḥ | channaṃ bāṇair āhavaṃ ghorarūpaṃ naṣṭādityaṃ mṛtyulokena tulyam ||
Bhīmasena said: “O Sūta, look now upon this battlefield. The arrows released by Bhīma—driven with tremendous speed—are cutting down the kings and have blanketed the entire combat-ground. The sun itself is hidden from sight, and the earth appears dreadful, like the realm of Death.”
भीमसेन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how war, even when pursued as kṣatriya-duty, rapidly turns the world into a death-like realm; it implicitly warns that martial prowess and righteous intent do not lessen the grim ethical weight and human cost of battle.
Bhīma addresses a charioteer (sūta), urging him to witness the battlefield where Bhīma’s swift arrows are felling kings and so thickly filling the sky that the sun is obscured, making the scene resemble Yama’s realm.