Shloka 13
Gadā-yuddhe Bhīma–Duryodhanayoḥ Tumulaḥ Saṃprahāraḥ
Mace-duel’s intense exchange
रक्षाश्न वाता: प्रववुर्नीचै: शर्करकर्षिण: । गिरीणां शिखराण्येव न्यपतन्त महीतले
sañjaya uvāca |
rakṣāśanā vātāḥ pravavur nīcaiḥ śarkarākarṣiṇaḥ |
girīṇāṃ śikharāṇy eva nyapatanta mahītale |
nirghātāśanā mahāghorā babhūvur lomaharṣaṇāḥ |
dīptāyāṃ diśi rājendra mṛgāś cāśubha-vedinaḥ ||
Sinabi ni Sañjaya: “Humihip ang hanging may dalang alikabok at graba, mababa kung dumaan at hinihila ang maliliit na bato sa lupa. Ang mga tuktok ng bundok ay wari’y bumabagsak sa daigdig. Umalingawngaw ang nakapangingilabot na kulog—mga pangitain na nakapangingilabot at nagpapangatog ng balahibo. Sa isang panig na tila nagliliyab, O Hari, ang mga hayop ay nagbigay ng mga hudyat na nagbabadya ng kapahamakan.”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores a Mahābhārata motif: when collective conduct sinks into adharma, nature itself appears disordered, presenting ominous signs. Ethically, it frames the coming violence as not merely a human conflict but a moral crisis whose consequences reverberate through the world.
Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra a sequence of terrifying portents—low, dust-choked winds dragging gravel, seeming collapse of mountain peaks, dreadful thunder and lightning, a quarter of the sky appearing to blaze, and animals behaving as if foretelling calamity—heightening the sense of impending disaster in the war.