Shloka 46

Devanagari script

भीम: क्रोधाग्निरक्ताक्ष: क्रुद्धः काल इवाबभौ | उन महारथियोंके चलाये हुए बाणोंद्वारा चारों ओरसे रोके जानेपर भीमसेनकी आँखें क्रोधसे लाल हो गयीं और वे कुपित हुए कालके समान प्रतीत होने लगे

Transliteration

bhīmaḥ krodhāgniraktākṣaḥ kruddhaḥ kāla ivābabhau |

Translation

Sañjaya nói: Bhīma, đôi mắt đỏ rực như bốc lửa giận, bùng lên trong cơn thịnh nộ và hiện ra như Thời Gian (Tử Thần) vậy. Dẫu bị mưa tên của các đại xa chiến binh vây chặn bốn phía, cơn cuồng nộ của chàng chỉ càng dữ dội, khiến chàng như hiện thân của sự hủy diệt không thể tránh.

Word by Word

भीमःBhima

क्रोधाग्नि-रक्ताक्षःwhose eyes were red like fire of anger

क्रुद्धःenraged

कालःTime/Death (Kala)

इवlike, as if

अभभौshone/appeared

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhīma (Bhīmasena)

mahārathī (great chariot-warriors)

bāṇa (arrows)

Kāla (Time/Death)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how unchecked anger can transform a warrior into a force of blind inevitability—‘like Kāla’—suggesting both the terrifying power of wrath and the moral danger of being consumed by it, even within the framework of a dharma-yuddha.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes Bhīma on the battlefield: despite being surrounded and restrained by volleys of arrows from great chariot-warriors, Bhīma’s eyes turn red with rage and he appears like Death itself, signaling an imminent, fearsome counterattack.