Shloka 21
Uttanka’s Viśvarūpa Request and the ‘Uttanka Clouds’ Boon (उत्तङ्क-विष्वरूप-दर्शनम्)
उत्तड़कमुनिकी श्रीकृष्णसे विश्वरूप दिखानेके लिये प्रार्थना भयं च महदुद्दिश्य त्रासिता: कुरवो मया । क्रुद्धेन भूत्वा तु पुनर्यथावदनुदर्शिता:
uttadakamunike śrīkṛṣṇase viśvarūpaṃ darśāne kartum prārthanaṃ; bhayaṃ ca mahad uddiśya trāsitāḥ kuravo mayā | kruddhena bhūtvā tu punar yathāvad anudarśitāḥ; tataḥ krodhena pūrṇaḥ san mayā kauravān mahābhayaiḥ pradarśya bhṛśaṃ trāsitāḥ—yuddhasya bhāvī pariṇāmo ’pi yathārthataḥ darśitaḥ | te tv adharmayuktāḥ kālagrastāś ca; ato mama vacanaṃ na jagṛhuḥ | paścāt kṣatriyadharmānusāreṇa yuddhe hatāḥ | na saṃśayaḥ sarve te svargalokaṃ gatāḥ ||
伐由说道：“当圣者乌塔达迦祈请圣克里希纳显现宇宙之相时，我为使其生大怖畏，曾震慑俱卢众。继而我怒起，便将战争将至之真实结局——如其必然——明明白白示于他们。然而他们为非义所缚，又为时命所攫，故不肯纳我忠告。其后依刹帝利之法，他们战死沙场。毫无疑问：他们尽皆升入天界。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even strong warnings and clear foreknowledge cannot reform those who are committed to adharma and overtaken by Kāla (inevitability). Yet the epic also affirms a dharmic nuance: death in battle according to kṣatriya-dharma can still lead to heavenly attainment, separating the moral failure of choices from the ritual-ethical status of a warrior’s end.
Vāyu recounts that, in connection with Uttadaka’s prayer for Kṛṣṇa to show the viśvarūpa, he tried to deter the Kurus by frightening them and showing the true future result of the coming war. The Kauravas refused the counsel because they were aligned with adharma and under the grip of Time; they then died in the war as warriors, and Vāyu concludes that they attained heaven.