Shloka 22
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 |
Sañjaya disse: “Ó Mādhava, o deus fez chover carne e sangue. E no céu surge uma cidade dos Gandharvas, resplandecente, como se estivesse plenamente formada diante de nossos olhos.”
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.