Shloka 6
Adhyāya 22: Śālva’s Weapon-Shower, Dāruka’s Wounding, and the Māyā-Report of Vasudeva’s Father
हतास्ते दानवा: सर्वे यै: स शब्द उदीरित: । शरैरादित्यसंकाशैज्वलितै: शब्दसाधनै:,जिन दानवोंने पहले कोलाहल किया था, वे सब सूर्यके समान तेजस्वी शब्दवेधी बाणोंद्वारा मारे गये
hatās te dānavāḥ sarve yaiḥ sa śabda udīritaḥ | śarair āditya-saṅkāśaiḥ jvalitaiḥ śabda-sādhanaiḥ ||
Vāyu said: “All those Dānavas who had raised that uproar were slain—struck down by blazing, sun-bright arrows, weapons aimed by sound itself. Thus, the very noise they unleashed became the means by which they were found and destroyed, showing how reckless aggression and boastful clamor can return upon its makers.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights moral causality: those who create violent disturbance and intimidation become vulnerable to the consequences of their own actions; the uproar they raise turns into the very means of their downfall.
Vāyu reports that the Dānavas who had earlier made a loud clamor were killed by blazing, sun-like arrows described as ‘sound-directed,’ implying that the attackers were located and struck by tracking the noise they produced.