समिद्धो ऽग्निर् यथा वीर महाज्वालो द्रुमान् दहेत् ॥
धार्तराष्ट्रान् प्रधक्ष्यन्ति तथा बाणाः किरीटिनः ॥
येन येन प्रसरतो वाय्वग्नी सहितौ वने ॥
तेन तेन प्रदहतो भगवन्तौ यद् इच्छतः ॥
यादृशो ऽग्निः समिद्धो हि तादृक् पार्थो न संशयः ॥
यथा वायुर् नरव्याघ्र तथा कृष्णो न संशयः ॥
samiddho 'gnir yathā vīra mahājvālo drumān dahet ||
dhārtarāṣṭrān pradhakṣyanti tathā bāṇāḥ kirīṭinaḥ ||
yena yena prasarato vāyvagnī sahitau vane ||
tena tena pradahato bhagavantau yad icchataḥ ||
yādṛśo 'gniḥ samiddho hi tādṛk pārtho na saṃśayaḥ ||
yathā vāyur naravyāghra tathā kṛṣṇo na saṃśayaḥ ||
[Karna:] As a blazing, high-burning fire consumes trees, O hero, so the arrows of the Crowned One [Arjuna] will burn the sons of Dhritarashtra to ashes. Wherever wind and fire move together through the forest, there these two mighty lords burn up everything they wish. Whatever kind of fire is blazing, such, indeed, is Partha [Arjuna] — no doubt; and as is the wind, O tiger among men, so is Krishna — no doubt.
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The union of fire and wind is an image of Arjuna and Krishna, inseparable and all-consuming: wind does not extinguish fire but fans it, and so Krishna multiplies Arjuna's might to the point of invincibility. It is telling that Karna twice repeats "no doubt": he sees the truth of this pair clearly, without self-deception. Yet in likening Krishna to the wind-element, he still conceives of Him as a force of nature, not perceiving in Him the Lord of the elements. The verse teaches that the devotee and his Lord, joined together, manifest a power nothing can withstand, like fire carried by the wind; and that even one who clearly sees Krishna's might may fail to understand that before him stands not an element, but the One who rules the elements.