Shloka 72
Varuṇābhiṣeka–Agni-anveṣaṇa–Kaubera-tīrtha
Varuṇa’s Consecration; Search for Agni; Kaubera Sacred Site
नरेश्वर! जैसे प्रलयके समय अत्यन्त भयंकर वज्र भारी गड़गड़ाहटके साथ पृथ्वीपर गिरने लगते हैं, उसी प्रकार उस समय भी भीषण गर्जनाके साथ वज्रपात होने लगा ।। क्षिप्ता होका यदा शक्ति: सुघोरानलसूनुना । ततः कोट्यो विनिष्पेतु: शक्तीनां भरतर्षभ,भरतश्रेष्ठ! अग्निकुमारने जब एक बार अत्यन्त भयंकर शक्ति छोड़ी, तब उससे करोड़ों शक्तियाँ प्रकट होकर गिरने लगीं
nareśvara! yathā pralayakāle atyanta-bhayaṅkaraṃ vajraṃ bhārī-gaḍagaḍāhaṭa-sahitaṃ pṛthivyāṃ nipatanti, tathā tasminn api kāle bhīṣaṇa-garjanā-sahitaṃ vajrapāto 'bhavat. kṣiptā hi yadā śaktiḥ sughorānalasūnunā, tataḥ koṭyo viniṣpetuḥ śaktīnāṃ bharatarṣabha.
Vaiśampāyana said: “O king, just as at the time of cosmic dissolution dreadful thunderbolts crash down upon the earth with a heavy, terrifying roar, so too then a storm of lightning strikes began amid fearsome peals of thunder. For when the son of Fire hurled a single exceedingly terrible spear-weapon, O bull of the Bharatas, from it there burst forth and fell a myriad—indeed, millions—of spears.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how warfare, when fueled by ever more terrible weapons, can assume an apocalyptic scale—suggesting an ethical warning about escalation and the destructive momentum of violence.
The narrator describes a terrifying battlefield moment: lightning-like strikes and thunderous roars accompany the release of a dreadful śakti by the son of Agni, from which innumerable spear-weapons seem to multiply and rain down.