श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । अथ प्रोड्डयनोद्युक्ततुरङ्गमतरङ्गकः । उत्ताण्डव इवोन्मत्तो बभूव स रणार्णवः ॥ १ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | atha prōḍḍayanōdyuktaturaṅgamataraṅgakaḥ | uttāṇḍava ivōnmattō babhūva sa raṇārṇavaḥ || 1 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: Then that ocean of battle, its waves the horses eager to leap, grew frenzied, as if dancing the wild tāṇḍava.
Word by word
- atha
- then
- prōḍḍayana
- to leap
- udyukta
- eager
- turaṅgama
- the horses
- taraṅgakaḥ
- its waves
- uttāṇḍava
- dancing the wild tāṇḍava
- iva
- as if
- unmattō
- (unmattaḥ) frenzied
- babhūva
- grew
- sa
- that
- raṇa
- of battle
- arṇavaḥ
- ocean
Meaning
The second commentary sums up the sarga: the battle of the four arms of the army (elephants, horses, chariots, foot) told in images of the ocean, the forest and the world's end. It begins with the ocean, and with the tāṇḍava, Śiva's dance of destruction. The whole sarga is one sentence of descriptions hung on "the ocean of battle" and then on "the end of an age in battle" (v. 20). For the reader who has followed the tale, it is still the world of thought of a dead king, and the more vivid it grows, the more it shows what a mind can make.