Shloka 163
उद्योगपर्व (अध्याय १२९) — केशवस्य वैभवप्रदर्शनम् / Krishna’s Theophanic Display in the Kuru Assembly
पटेनाग्निं प्रजवबलितं यथा बाला यथा जडा: । “जैसे बालक और जड बुद्धिवाले लोग जलती आगको कपड़ेमें बाँधना चाहें, उसी प्रकार ये मन्दबुद्धि कौरव इन कमलनयन भगवान् श्रीकृष्णको यहाँ कैद करना चाहते हैं!
paṭenāgniṁ prajvalitaṁ yathā bālā yathā jaḍāḥ |
毗湿摩波耶那说道：正如愚童与钝人妄想以布裹住熊熊烈火一般，这些迷妄的俱卢人竟欲在此囚禁莲眼的主——圣奎师那；此举既不可能，亦是道义上的盲昧。
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Arrogance and moral blindness lead to self-destructive choices: attempting to restrain the righteous and the divine is both impossible and ethically corrupt, like trying to bind fire with cloth.
In the Udyoga Parva context of failed diplomacy, the Kauravas contemplate detaining Kṛṣṇa; the narrator condemns this as foolish and futile through the simile of wrapping a blazing fire in cloth.