Shloka 76
Bhīmasena–Hanūmān Saṃvāda: The Tail Test and the Divine Path
विद्युत्सम्पातदुष्प्रेक्ष॑ विद्युत्सम्पातपिड्ुलम् । विद्युत्सम्पातनिनदं विद्युत्सम्पातचठ्चलम्,विद्युत्पातके समान चकाचौंध पैदा करनेके कारण उनकी ओर देखना अत्यन्त कठिन हो रहा था। उनकी अंगकान्ति गिरती हुई बिजलीके समान पिंगल-वर्णकी थी। उनका गर्जन-तर्जन वज्रपातकी गड़गड़ाहटके समान था। वे विद्युत्पातके सदूश चड्चल प्रतीत होते थे
vaiśampāyana uvāca |
vidyut-sampāta-duṣprekṣaṁ vidyut-sampāta-piṅgalam |
vidyut-sampāta-ninadaṁ vidyut-sampāta-cañcalam ||
Vaiśampāyana said: He was almost impossible to look at, for he flashed like a sudden bolt of lightning. His body’s radiance was tawny-golden, like lightning striking down. His roar resounded like the thunder of a thunderbolt, and he seemed restless and swift, again like lightning itself—an awe-inspiring manifestation that warns against pride and urges reverence before overwhelming power.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses lightning imagery to convey overwhelming, ungraspable power—suggesting that such force should inspire humility and caution, not arrogance, and that one should respond with reverence and self-restraint.
Vaiśampāyana describes a formidable figure whose brilliance, color, roar, and restless motion resemble a lightning strike, emphasizing the terror and majesty of the moment through repeated similes.