Shloka 22
Uttanka’s Viśvarūpa Request and the ‘Uttanka Clouds’ Boon (उत्तङ्क-विष्वरूप-दर्शनम्)
ते<धर्मेणेह संयुक्ता: परीता: कालधर्मणा । धर्मेण निहता युद्धे गता: स्वर्ग न संशय:
te dharmeṇeha saṃyuktāḥ parītāḥ kāladharmaṇā | dharmeṇa nihatā yuddhe gatāḥ svargaṃ na saṃśayaḥ ||
وایو نے کہا—یہاں وہ اپنے مقررہ دھرم سے بندھے ہوئے تھے اور زمانے کے قانون نے بھی انہیں گھیر رکھا تھا۔ دھرم کے مطابق جنگ میں مارے جا کر وہ سوَرگ کو پہنچ گئے ہیں—اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links battlefield death to dharma and to the inevitability of Kāla (Time): even amid moral complexity, those who fall in a dharma-framed war are said to attain svarga, while the larger outcome is also portrayed as time-bound and unavoidable.
Vāyudeva comments on warriors who, though overtaken by the force of Time, were killed in battle in accordance with dharma; he affirms confidently that they have reached heaven.