Shloka 22
Udyoga Parva 142: Vidura’s warning to Kuntī and Kuntī’s resolve to meet Karṇa
Gaṅgātīra encounter begins
मांसशोणितवर्ष च वृष्टं देवेन माधव । तथा गन्धर्वनगरं भानुमत् समुपस्थितम्,“माधव! बादल आकाशसे मांस और रक्तकी वर्षा करते हैं। अन्तरिक्षमें चहारदिवारी, खाईं, वप्र और सुन्दर फाटकोंसहित सूर्ययुक्त गन्धर्वनगर प्रकट दिखायी देता है। वहाँ सूर्यको चारों ओरसे घेरकर एक काला परिघ प्रकट होता है
sañjaya uvāca | māṁsaśoṇitavarṣa ca vṛṣṭaṁ devena mādhava | tathā gandharvanagaraṁ bhānumat samupasthitam |
សញ្ជ័យបាននិយាយថា៖ «ឱ ម៉ាធវ! ព្រះបានបង្អួតភ្លៀងជាសាច់ និងឈាម។ ហើយនៅលើមេឃ ក៏មានទីក្រុងគន្ធរវៈភ្លឺរលោងមួយ បង្ហាញឡើងដូចជាបង្កើតរួចរាល់នៅមុខភ្នែកយើង»។
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how grave moral and social breakdown (approaching fratricidal war) is mirrored by ominous portents in nature. Such signs function as ethical warnings: when rulers and warriors abandon dharma, the world itself seems to signal impending catastrophe.
Sanjaya reports terrifying supernatural omens to Mādhava: a rain of flesh and blood and the apparition of a luminous ‘Gandharva-city’ in the sky. These are presented as forewarnings of the destructive war that is about to unfold.