The Bhagavad Gita AS it is Text 15 + 18

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The Bhagavad Gita AS it is Text 15 + 18

 

Texts [15 + 18] Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra

 

TEXT 15

 

pancajanyam hrsikeso

devadattatm dhananjayah

paundram dadhmau maha-sankham

bhima-karma vrkodarah

 

pancajanyam-- the conchshell named Pancajanya; hrsikesah- Hrsikesa

(Krsna, the Lord who directs the senses of the devotees); devadat tam—

the conchshell named Devadatta; dhananjayah—Dhananjaya (Arjuna, the

Bhagavad-gita As It Is [Ch. 1]

 

winner of wealth); paupdram —the conch named Paundram dadhmau— blew;

maha-sankham—the terrific conchshell; bhuma-karma—one who per­forms

Herculean tasks; vrkodarah—the voracious eater (Bhima).

 

TRANSLATION

 

Then, Lord Krsna blew His conchshell, called Pancajanya; Arjuna blew

his, the Devadatta; and Bhima, the voracious eater and performer of

Herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell called Paundram.

 

PURPORT

 

Lord Krsna is referred to as Hrsikesa in this verse because He is the

owner of all senses. The living entities are part and parcel of Him,

and, therefore, the senses of the living entities are also part and

parcel of His senses. The impersonalists cannot account for the

senses of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious

to describe all living entities as sense-less, or impersonal. The

Lord, situated in the hearts of all living entities, directs their

senses. But, He directs in terms of the surrender of the living

entity, and in the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the

senses. Here on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra the Lord directly

controls the transcendental senses of Arjuna, and thus His particular

name of Hrsikesa. The Lord has different names according to His

different activities. For example, His name is Madhusudana because He

killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He

gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses; His name is Vasudeva

because He appeared as the son of Vasudeva; His name is Devaki-

nandana because He accepted Devaki as His mother; His name is Yasoda-

nandana because He awarded His child­hood pastimes to Yasoda at

Vrndavana; His name is Partha-sarathi because He worked as charioteer

of His friend Arjuna. Similarly, His name is Hrsikesa because He gave

direction to Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kuru­ksetra.

Arjuna is referred to as Dhananjaya in this verse because he helped

his elder brother in fetching wealth when it was required by the King

to make expenditures for different sacrifices. Similarly, Bhima is

known as Vrko­dara because he could eat as voraciously as he could

perform Herculean tasks, such as killing the demon Hidimba. So, the

particular types of conchshell blown by the different personalities

on the side of the Pandavas beginning with the Lord's, were all very

encouraging to the fighting soldiers. On the other side there were no

such credits, nor the presence of Lord

Krsna, the supreme director, nor that of the goddess of fortune. So,

they were predestined to lose the battle—and that was the message

announced by the sounds of the conchshells.

 

TEXT 18

 

TRANSLATION

 

King Yudhisthira, the son of Kunti, blew his conchshell, the Anantavi­

jaya, and Nakula and Sahadeva blew the Sughosa and Manipuspaka. That

great archer the King of Kasi, the great fighter Sikhandi,

Dhrstadyumna, Virata and the unconquerable Satyaki, Drupada, the sons

of Draupadi, and the others, 0 King, such as the son of Subhadra,

greatly armed, all blew their respective conchshells.

 

PURPORT

 

Sanjaya informed King Dhrtarastra very tactfully that his unwise

policy of deceiving the sons of Pandhu and endeavoring to enthrone

his own sons on the seat of the kingdom was not very laudable. The

signs already clearly indicated that the whole Kuru dynasty would be

killed in that great battle. Beginning with the grandsire, Bhisma,

down to the grandsons like Abhimanyu and others—including kings from

many states of the world

—all were present there, and all were doomed. The whole catastrophe

was due to King Dhrtarastra, because he encouraged the policy

followed by his sons.

 

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