On seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Divine Charioteer, ranged on the side of the Pāṇḍavas, Kings and Warriors of great prowess, arrayed opposite, screamed and trembled. The exalted Celestials came in their strength and watched from above, bubbling with reverent admiration, the wondrous battle down below, whose strategy was directed by the Lord at every turn, culminating in the victory of the Pāṇḍavas.
In this fifth pāśuram of the fourth chapter in the seventh decade, the āzhvār immerses his divine consciousness in the glorious spectacle of the mahābhārata war, a divine play orchestrated by śrīman nārāyaṇa to relieve the earth of its insufferable burden. The āzhvār specifically relishes the symphony of sounds that arose upon the battlefield at the very moment