Shloka 396
Śiva’s Battlefield Manifestation and Vyāsa’s Śatarudrīya Exposition (शिवप्रादुर्भावः शतरुद्रीयव्याख्यानम्)
पार्थ सिषिचतुर्बाणैर्गिरिं मेघाविवाम्बुभि: । एक रथपर आरूढ़ हुए पिता और पुत्र दोनों महारथियोंने अर्जुनपर उसी प्रकार बाणोंकी वर्षा आरम्भ कर दी, जैसे दो मेघखण्ड अपने जलसे किसी पर्वतको सींच रहे हों
sañjaya uvāca | pārthaṃ siṣicatur bāṇair giriṃ meghāv ivāmbubhiḥ |
सञ्जय उवाच— पितापुत्रौ महारथौ एकस्मिन् रथे समारूढौ पार्थं चतुर्भिर्बाणैः सिषिचतुः। यथा मेघखण्डौ गिरिं वृष्ट्याऽम्भोभिः सिञ्चेतां तथा तौ शरवर्षेणार्जुनं समन्तात् प्रावृषयताम्॥
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how warfare can intensify to the point that even familial bonds recede before martial purpose; ethically, it invites reflection on restraint (saṃyama) and the costs of duty-driven violence when combatants focus their power on a single opponent.
Sañjaya describes two allied warriors—father and son—riding together on one chariot and unleashing a heavy, coordinated shower of arrows at Arjuna, compared to two rain-clouds drenching a mountain.