The fire reaches the Sharngakas as they remain
The protective mother bird, Jarita, has flown to safety, leaving her four sons — the Sharngakas — alone in the Khandava forest. The all-consuming fire, driven by Agni and fanned by Krishna and Arjuna, now reaches their nest with its piercing flames.
Jarita was gone. She had left her four sons — Sarisrikka, Stambamitra, Drona, and Pravodha — in their nest in the Khandava forest after a desperate, failed attempt to convince them to flee into a safe hole. She had flown swiftly to a region where there was no fire and no fear.
The fire did not pause. The blazing conflagration, with its leaping, piercing flames, advanced relentlessly through the dry tinder of the forest. It arrived at the exact place where the Sharngakas, Mandapala’s sons, remained.
The young birds saw the flames blazing in their terrifying energy, felt the heat, and heard the roar. Jaritari, one of the four, spoke. His words were not for his brothers. They were addressed so that the fire itself could hear, a final preparation before the confrontation.