Shloka 46

Devanagari script

भीम: क्रोधाग्निरक्ताक्ष: क्रुद्धः काल इवाबभौ | उन महारथियोंके चलाये हुए बाणोंद्वारा चारों ओरसे रोके जानेपर भीमसेनकी आँखें क्रोधसे लाल हो गयीं और वे कुपित हुए कालके समान प्रतीत होने लगे

Transliteration

bhīmaḥ krodhāgniraktākṣaḥ kruddhaḥ kāla ivābabhau |

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。――ビーマは怒りの火に染まったかのように眼を赤くし、憤激して、まるでカーラ（時・死）そのものの姿を現した。大車戦士たちの放つ矢に四方から押しとどめられても、その憤怒はいよいよ増し、戦場において避けがたい滅びの化身のように見えた。

Word by Word

भीमःBhima

क्रोधाग्नि-रक्ताक्षःwhose eyes were red like fire of anger

क्रुद्धःenraged

कालःTime/Death (Kala)

इवlike, as if

अभभौshone/appeared

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīma (Bhīmasena)

mahārathī (great chariot-warriors)

bāṇa (arrows)

Kāla (Time/Death)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how unchecked anger can transform a warrior into a force of blind inevitability—‘like Kāla’—suggesting both the terrifying power of wrath and the moral danger of being consumed by it, even within the framework of a dharma-yuddha.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes Bhīma on the battlefield: despite being surrounded and restrained by volleys of arrows from great chariot-warriors, Bhīma’s eyes turn red with rage and he appears like Death itself, signaling an imminent, fearsome counterattack.