Shloka 16
उल्काश्न जच्निरे सूर्य विकीर्यन्त्य:ः समन्ततः । वेपथुश्चा भवद् राजन् कैलासस्य महागिरे:,चारों ओर बिखरकर गिरती हुई उल्काएँ सूर्यसे टकराने लगीं। राजन! उस समय महापर्वत कैलास भी काँपने लगा
ulkāś ca jajñire sūryaṁ vikīryantyaḥ samantataḥ | vepathuś cābhavad rājan kailāsasya mahāgireḥ ||
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。流星が現れ、四方へ散り落ちながら、まるで太陽に打ち当たるかのようであった。王よ、そのとき大いなる山カイラーサさえ震え始めた—自然の激変が、展開する事態の重さを映していた。
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses cosmic portents—meteors and a trembling sacred mountain—to signal that moral and political actions have consequences that reverberate beyond human society. In Mahābhārata’s ethical imagination, disturbances in dharma are mirrored by disturbances in nature.
Vaiśampāyana narrates ominous signs: meteors scatter across the sky as if colliding with the sun, and Mount Kailāsa shakes. These are presented as foreboding indicators accompanying a moment of great narrative tension in the Aśvamedhika Parva.