Shloka 18
सवालव्यजर्नर्दिव्यर्दिविस्थैरप्सरोगणै: । शक्रसूर्यकराब्जा भ्यां प्रमार्जितमुखावुभौ
sa vālavya-janair divyair divi-sthair apsaro-gaṇaiḥ | śakra-sūrya-karābjābhyāṃ pramārjita-mukhāv ubhau ||
संजय म्हणाला—तेव्हा स्वर्गस्थ अप्सरागण व दिव्य परिचारकांनी सन्मानित झालेले ते दोघेही, जणू इंद्र व सूर्य यांच्या कमलासारख्या हातांनी त्यांच्या मुखावरून मृदूतेने हात फिरवून ते ताजेतवाने केले असावे, असे भासले।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys that the deaths and sufferings of great warriors are not treated as mere brutality; the epic frames them within a moral-cosmic horizon where valor and the gravity of action are acknowledged by divine witnesses, reminding the listener that karma and honor operate even amid chaos.
Sañjaya describes a scene in which two figures (ubhau) are attended by celestial beings—Apsarases and heavenly attendants—who symbolically cleanse and refresh their faces, poetically likened to being wiped by the lotus-like hands of Indra and the Sun.