Shloka 19
कुरुक्षेत्रे सेनानिवेशवृत्तान्तः — Dhṛtarāṣṭra Questions Saṃjaya on the Deployed Armies
अभिगुप्तो महाबाहुर्मरुद्धिरिव वासव: । नीलकौशेयवसन: कैलासशिखरोपम:
abhigupto mahābāhur marudbhir iva vāsavaḥ | nīlakauśeyavasanaḥ kailāsaśikharopamaḥ ||
വൈശമ്പായനൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ആ മഹാബാഹു, മരുത്ഗണങ്ങളാൽ ചുറ്റപ്പെട്ട വാസവൻ (ഇന്ദ്രൻ)പോലെ, കാവലോടെ പരിചാരകരാൽ അനുഗമിക്കപ്പെട്ടു. ഗാഢനീല കൗശേയവസ്ത്രം ധരിച്ച അവൻ, തേജസ്സിൽ കൈലാസശിഖരത്തെപ്പോലെ ദീപ്തനായി തോന്നി।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Power is presented as legitimate and admirable when it is disciplined and well-ordered—protected by allies and expressed with dignity—rather than as solitary aggression. The Indra-with-Maruts simile suggests that rightful leadership is supported by a harmonious retinue and proper conduct.
The narrator describes a prominent warrior/hero in heightened poetic terms: he is securely guarded, accompanied like Indra among the Maruts, dressed in dark-blue silk, and shining like a summit of Kailāsa—an image that signals majesty and the gravity of the impending political-military events in the Udyoga Parva.