Shloka 69
Sauptika Parva, Adhyaya 8 — Dhṛṣṭadyumna-vadha and the Camp’s Nocturnal Rout
कालीं रक्तास्यनयनां रक्तमाल्यानुलेपनाम् | रक्ताम्बरधरामेकां पाशहस्तां कुटुम्बिनीम्
kālīṁ raktāsyanayanāṁ raktamālyānulepanām | raktāmbaradharām ekāṁ pāśahastāṁ kuṭumbinīm ||
サञ्जयは言った。「彼らはカララートリーが具現した姿を見た。身は黒く、されど口と眼は血のように赤い。赤い花鬘と赤い香膏で飾り、赤衣をまとっていた。彼女はただ一人、異様に立ち、手には縄（投げ縄）を携え、己が眷属を従えていた。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
When warfare descends into adharma, its consequences are portrayed as inevitable and supra-human: Death/Time (Kālarātri) ‘binds’ beings like a noose, emphasizing karmic ripening and the collapse of moral restraint.
In Sañjaya’s report, the warriors perceive a terrifying embodied figure—Kālarātri—marked by red eyes and mouth, red adornments and clothing, holding a noose and accompanied by attendants. The apparition functions as a portent that many lives are about to be taken and that the night’s violence is under the shadow of inexorable death.