Shloka 24

Kāleya-Āśrama-Vināśaḥ — The Kāleyas’ nocturnal raids and the devas’ supplication to Nārāyaṇa

Devanagari script

चकार वजं भृशमुग्ररूप॑ं कृत्वा च शक्रं स उवाच हृष्ट: । अनेन वज्प्रवरेण देव भस्मीकुरुष्वाद्य सुरारिमुग्रम्‌

Transliteration

cakāra vajraṁ bhṛśam ugrarūpaṁ kṛtvā ca śakraṁ sa uvāca hṛṣṭaḥ | anena vajrapravareṇa deva bhasmīkuruṣvādya surārim ugraṁ ||

Translation

Lomāśa said: “He fashioned a thunderbolt of exceedingly fearsome form; and, having prepared it, he spoke to Śakra with delight: ‘O god, with this foremost of thunderbolts, reduce today the fierce enemy of the gods to ashes.’” The passage frames righteous force as a divinely sanctioned instrument meant to remove a grave threat to cosmic order rather than as violence for its own sake.

Word by Word

चकारmade, fashioned

वज्रम्thunderbolt

भृशम्exceedingly, greatly

उग्ररूपम्of fierce form

कृत्वाhaving made

चand

शक्रम्Indra (Śakra)

सःhe

उवाचsaid, spoke

हृष्टःdelighted, pleased

अनेनwith this

वज्रप्रवरेणwith the excellent thunderbolt

देवO god (O Deva)

भस्मीकुरुष्वreduce to ashes!

अद्यtoday, now

सुरारिम्the enemy of the gods

उग्रम्fierce, formidable

Speaker

लोगमश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Lomāśa

Śakra (Indra)

vajra (thunderbolt)

surāri (enemy of the gods)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes