Shloka 41
कुमाराभिषेकप्रश्नः — Inquiry into Kumāra (Skanda) Investiture at Sarasvatī
निगूढमस्यागमनमिहासीत पूर्वमेव तु । ततो<भ्येत्यारुणां देवीं प्लावयामास वारिणा
nigūḍham asyāgamanam ihāsīt pūrvam eva tu | tato 'bhyetyāruṇāṃ devīṃ plāvayāmāsa vāriṇā ||
毗湿摩波耶那说：她来到此处之事早已预先秘而不宣。随后他走近阿鲁那女神，以水倾注淹没她——此举以隐匿与骤然行动推进情节，凸显在战争叙事中，暗中的行止与强力的作为如何塑造结局。
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how concealment and sudden decisive action can alter events; ethically, it points to the tension between straightforward conduct and strategic secrecy that frequently arises in wartime narratives.
The narrator states that a woman’s arrival had been deliberately kept secret; afterward someone approaches the goddess named Aruṇā and drenches or inundates her with water, marking a forceful turn in the episode.