Shloka 24
इन्द्रस्य दुःखप्राप्तिः—त्रिशिरोवधः, वृत्रोत्पत्तिः, जृम्भिकाजननम्
Indra’s Distress: Slaying of Triśiras, Birth of Vṛtra, and the Origin of Yawning
स पपात हतस्तेन वज्नेण दृढ्माहत:ः । पर्वतस्येव शिखर प्रणुन्नं मेदिनीतले
sa papāta hatas tena vajreṇa dṛḍham āhataḥ | parvatasyeva śikharaṃ praṇunnaṃ medinītale ||
त्या कठोर वज्रप्रहाराने तो घोर जखमी होऊन मारला गेला आणि पृथ्वीवर कोसळला—जणू वज्राघाताने तुटलेले पर्वतशिखर भूमीवर पडावे तसे।
शल्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the destructive certainty of a divinely empowered weapon and, ethically, the peril of wrath-backed resolve: when power is unleashed with uncompromising intent, even the strongest can be reduced to ruin, like a mountain peak brought down.
A powerful figure is struck by a thunderbolt (vajra) and collapses dead onto the earth; the fall is compared to a mountain summit shattered and cast down—an image used to convey the magnitude and finality of the blow.