An excellent parable embodying two auguries,primarily the danger of power,secondly the danger of power in the hands of the undeserving ,the uninitiated.
Here,the allusion to Bhasmasura is beautifully woven into the fabric of the modern world of unscrupulous greed and cruelty.
A tiger which kills or eats a man is shot down as a danger to mankind , but when a man senselessly kills animals for pleasure of power,he is tolerated in the society.Infact the question is what term should we use for a man who kills man?