Shloka 104
Kārttikeya-Abhiṣecana: Mātṛgaṇa-Nāma Saṃkīrtana and Skanda’s Commission
हृष्टा: परिपतन्ति सम महापारिषदास्तथा । दीर्घग्रीवा दीर्घनखा दीर्घपादशिरो भुजा:,वे महापार्षदगण हर्षमें भरकर चारों ओरसे दौड़े चले आ रहे थे। उनकी ग्रीवा, मस्तक, हाथ, पैर और नख सभी बड़े-बड़े थे
hṛṣṭāḥ paripatanti sma mahāpāriṣadās tathā | dīrghagrīvā dīrghanakhā dīrghapādaśirobhujāḥ ||
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「歓喜に満ちて、大いなる従者たちは四方から走り寄って来た。首は長く、爪も長く、足も頭も腕も、いずれも並外れて巨大であった――不吉な、異界の群れが、戦の物語のただ中へと押し寄せて来たのである。」
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse primarily serves a narrative-ethical function: it heightens the sense that war unleashes forces beyond ordinary human control, where ominous, abnormal signs accompany adharma and mass destruction, warning the listener about the moral and cosmic disturbance caused by violence.
The narrator describes a group of powerful, strange-looking attendants rushing in joyfully from all directions. Their exaggerated physical features (long necks, claws, limbs) mark them as uncanny beings, intensifying the atmosphere of dread and portent within the Shalya Parva war setting.