Shloka 5
Arjuna’s Self-Identification and the Ten Names
Uttara–Arjuna Saṃvāda
रूक्षवर्णाश्ष जलदा अनबन ्शना: । निःसरन्ति च कोशेभ्य: १ विविधानि च
rūkṣavarṇāś ca jaladā anabhrāśanāḥ | niḥsaranti ca kośebhyaḥ vividhāni ca |
வறண்ட நிறமுடைய, தொடர்ச்சியான மேகக்கூட்டமின்றி மேகங்கள் எழுகின்றன; அவற்றின் உறைகளிலிருந்து பலவகை வடிவங்கள் வெளிப்படுகின்றன।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses imagery of clouds and emergence from coverings to suggest that turbulent times reveal what was hidden; ethically, it cautions that concealed tendencies and consequences surface when conditions become severe.
The narrator describes an ominous natural scene—grim-colored clouds and various things emerging from their ‘sheaths’—functioning as atmospheric description and a possible portent within the unfolding events of the Virāṭa episode.