Shloka 21
सौप्तिकपर्व — धृष्टद्युम्नसारथिवृत्तान्तः
Report of the Night Raid and Yudhiṣṭhira’s Lament
महाचमूकक्षदवाभिपन्नं महाहवे भीष्ममयाग्निदाहम् । ये सेहुरात्तायुधती&णवेगं ते राजपुत्रा निहता: प्रमादात्
mahācamūkṣadavābhipannaṁ mahāhave bhīṣmamayāgnidāham | ye sehurāttāyudhatīvravegaṁ te rājaputrā nihatāḥ pramādāt ||
苏多说道：在那场大厮杀中，当浩大的军阵被野火般的焚烧所攫住——毗湿摩即是那火——那些王族之子曾在他炽烈的冲击里忍受住兵刃的凶猛奔袭，然而终究仍因疏忽而被杀。
सूत उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights that courage and endurance in crisis are not sufficient by themselves; pramāda (heedlessness) can nullify hard-won survival. Ethically, it stresses vigilance, disciplined attention, and the danger of complacency even after facing great trials.
The narrator (Sūta) describes Bhīṣma’s battlefield onslaught as a wildfire consuming an army. Those princes who withstood the intense, weapon-driven force of that ‘Bhīṣma-fire’ were nevertheless later killed because they became negligent—suggesting a subsequent lapse in alertness after surviving the main danger.