Shloka 16
शरातुरास्तथैवान्ये दन्तिनो विद्रुता दिश:
śarāturās tathaivānye dantino vidrutā diśaḥ | agnir yathendhanaṃ prāpya dīpyate jvalitārcibhiḥ | tathā pāṇḍava-senāṃ sa dagdhvā tejasā tava sutaḥ duḥśāsanaḥ prajvalita iva babhūva ||
サンジャヤは言った。「矢に苦しめられ、ほかの多くの戦象もまた四方へ逃げ散った。そして、火が薪を得て、燃えさかる舌のような炎を吐き、凄まじい勢いで燃え上がるように、汝の子ドゥフシャーサナも、パーンダヴァ軍を焼き尽くさんばかりに、自らの熱情によっていよいよ燃え立つかに見えた。この光景は、制御されぬ怒りに駆られた武勇が、ダルマに従う鍛えられた道具ではなく、すべてを呑み込む力へと変わり得ることを示していた。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses the fire-and-fuel simile to show how martial energy (tejas) can rapidly intensify when fed by aggression, becoming destructive and indiscriminate. Implicitly, it points to the ethical need for restraint and dharmic intention in warfare, lest prowess turn into a consuming blaze.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that elephants, pained by arrow-strikes, are scattering in all directions. In the same breath he depicts Duḥśāsana as surging forward like a fire newly fed with fuel, scorching the Pāṇḍava forces with heightened ferocity.